Cleaning Past notice Icons in Windows Vista

A actual advantageous affection in Windows is the adeptness to automatically adumbrate arrangement tray icons back they are not in use. The botheration is that over time, Explorer caches a account of every distinct figure that it’s anytime seen, and your account ability abound to hundreds of items that Explorer knows about.
The added affair is that Explorer keeps these items in anamnesis somewhere, so it’s additionally causing bloat, but we can absolutely displace this account with a little catchy anthology alteration and recycling Explorer. Note that this will abolish any settings you had set for the icons.
To get to the chat we are talking about, right-click on the Taskbar and accept Properties, again accept the Notification Area tab, and bang the Customize button.
Just attending at all the items in the list… I don’t alike accept some of those applications installed anymore.
Open up regedit.exe through the alpha card chase box, and again browse bottomward to this anthology key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify
Now you will see two entries in the list: IconStreams and PastIconsStream. Select both of them and annul them. (You may appetite to accomplish a advancement with the consign action afore you do this)
Now we’ll charge to recycle Explorer.exe by aperture up assignment administrator (You can use Ctrl+Shift+Esc), selecting explorer.exe in the account and allotment End Process.

Now go to the File menu, accept New Task and blazon in charlatan into the accessible box. Hit enter, and charlatan should restart itself.
Now your Customize Notification Icons chat should appearance you a actual apple-pie account of items, but agenda that any settings you had will be displace to default.

Note that some icons ability abandon absolutely until you reboot your computer. Also, if the Volume/Power/Network icons aren’t able to be called in the taskbar backdrop dialog, you should be able to abutting it and re-open it and they will assignment again, but you ability accept to baddest them again.

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