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Article: Spring clean your System Tray: all windows.(Windows)
- Article from:
- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Many applications try to keep themselves, or one of their modules, running in your System Tray (the area near the clock) even when you're not using them. Most of these Startup items are placed here when you first install the program. If you only use them occasionally, you can prevent them from starting by using a handy freeware tool such as Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel. Visit www.mlin. net/StartupCPL.shtml to download it.
Unfortunately, some applications (such as QuickTime for Windows) restore their Startup commands every time you upgrade or even just run the application. Before you can clean them out automatically, you need to edit the Registry ...