just wondering how to do this

i was messing around with some registry tools but i didnt understand them

i have 2 icons that i want to set to always hide

also, how could i remove something from starting up with windows if its not in the startup folder?

thanks

how could i remove something from starting up with windows if its not in the startup folder?

Hello lilweirddude! Have you tried msconfig?

About the icons, are you talking about the system tray icons?

in regedit goto

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Run msconfig to see the name of the program that you want to disable on start-up. You can also see the registry location there, as MCT said.

For example, if I want to disable Yahoo Messenger from my start-up, this is my code.

REM THIS WILL DISABLE YAHOO! PAGER ON START-UP

REG DELETE HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN /V "YAHOO! PAGER" /F

yeah, i was trying to moniter changes after using msconfig

thanks, will try it out

edit: yes i'm talking about the system tray icons

As for the system tray icons, I'm also looking for a way to do that.

Tray Saver

TraySaver is an advanced system tray management utility for Windows 95/98/NT. It gives you a more compact & manageable taskbar by allowing you to hide system tray icons. Tray icons can be moved into a separate floating window, which can then be moved around or hidden as you please. In addition, TraySaver rescues tray icons lost after an Explorer crash, and enables any window to be minimized to the system tray.

...for Windows 95/98/NT...

have you tried this on WinXP?

Run msconfig to see the name of the program that you want to disable on start-up.  You can also see the registry location there, as MCT said.

For example, if I want to disable Yahoo Messenger from my start-up, this is my code.

REM THIS WILL DISABLE YAHOO! PAGER ON START-UP

REG DELETE HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN /V "YAHOO! PAGER" /F

Cool! I was searching for a way to disable the stuff I found in msconfig startup tab.

My method of removing stuff

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

"Yahoo! Pager"=-

...for Windows 95/98/NT...

have you tried this on WinXP?

Yes it does work in xp but I couldn't get it to display the floating window but you could hide and show things from the menu anyway.

Also I haven't tried to do it unattended. I think it is possible though.

BTW if you guys dont know this already windows xp is actually 'Windows NT 5.1' so most nt software will work in it