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Old 02-26-2004, 02:02 AM
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XP tray items & startup programs

Hi guys
I have 2 questions:
1)
What is the path of the different programs/items that are found in the tray on the utmost right of the taskbar ? - I mean the location where they are.
At present, I have Norton Antivirus and a few others in the tray. There is one called 'Music Search online' that I want to remove from the tray and of course from the location it is stored as well. Normally, I don't find in the Add/Remove items list. So how can I remove it? (by the way, I use XP Pro)

2) When windows has finished loading, a small menu with facilities to chat and search for MP3 on the internet appears on the desktop. I don't know its exact file name - I want to remove this program. I thought it is somewhere in the startup files but i couldn't find it. Does someone have any suggestion as to how to remove it?
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Old 02-26-2004, 04:17 AM
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In answer to your 2nd question - you might try going to Start Menu --> Run and then type in 'msconfig' (without the quote marks). Select the last tab (Startup) and see if you can identify if its listed there - if so, just uncheck the mark next to it then save, by clicking 'Apply' and reboot.

Hopefully, this will stop it loading at startup, but I'm not sure how you totally remove it.

Hope this helps
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Old 02-26-2004, 04:53 AM
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RE: xp tray items ...

thanks phate for your reply

but I already tried the msconfig utility but i was not able to guess the item that i wanted to delete....
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