how do you remove the numerous icons you do not use from your system tray?

Question

There are so many items/icons in my system tray (is that what it's called, the one located in the right lower corner of the windows desktop?). How do I remove some of them -- the ones I do not use regularly? I don’t want to just hide them, I don’t want unneeded icons to be there. It looks like a mess. Help, please. Thanks.

Answer 1

With all due respect to the other answerer, I think you ought to check out the link below before doing any removals.

This is an excellent link with a lot of information about the system tray. The answer you want - removal - is near the bottom of the page.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsys.htm

Answer 2

If it is in the System tray, then unless you do not need the programs you cannot remove them unless they have preferences to turn them off like Quicktime. Otherwise you will have to uninstall the actual whole program. Some you have to put up with, like sound volume, removeable hardware etc.

HTH

Answer 3

Select the icon you don't want, hold the left mouse button over it and drag it onto your desktop, right click it, Delete it.
Job Done