system tray

[andyh]

Is there anyway of hiding the system tray, or if not is it possible to stop an application from placing an icon in it ?

thanks

 

[Comtech]

Depends on the application.
Some apps have an option to hide the icon, some to NOT load on startup (Norton, McAfee, Real Player/jukebox have the option to NOT load).
Everything else can be shut off by running msconfig (Start > Run > type in MSCONFIG) and choose the "Startup" Tab.
You can safely uncheck EVERYTHING in there, but you should leave scanregestry running. It only runs once per day on the first boot up to backup your registry files.
Read my FAQ on it (

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/tocache.htm)

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[andyh]

thanks for the reply - some useful advice there - i noticed that kernelrocessor usage is running at 100% is this normal, occassionaly it drops to 0 momentarily (i am updating every second ), also how do you view sysmon.log ?

thanks

 

[Comtech]

Processor at 100% all the time is NOT good. Removing whatever you can from startup is just one way of getting that down, but another major cause of this is a shoddy winmodem.
Sysmon.log is viewable in Notepad.

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