how do you remove items in the system tray near the clock?

Question

want to remove unwanted items to speed up computer

Answer 1

Well,You can click start---click run---type msconfig---click startup tabs,then you can uncheck programes that dont need to run at startup.Then click ok to exist.
Good luck!

Answer 2

If you want the programs that go with those icons to run at startup, but just don't want the icons, then you need to go into the programs themselves, and look for things like "Properties", "Options", and/or "Preferences" in the drop-down menus. Somewhere in there you will find a tab with a check box for "Taskbar Tray Icon" which you can uncheck. Be sure to click on any "Apply" button you see as you back out of the little windows you opened, then "Okay". When you start your computer again, the icons should be gone.

Answer 3

Usually installed program put icons there. You can right click on the one's in question [one at a time] and bring up the associated program. Then you should look under options for that program and uncheck the box marked 'show in system tray' for each program you want to remove from there. Sometime programs are nasty and automatically put stuff there at startup. Remove those them from the startup folder.

Answer 4

The best way would be to click on Start, then Run, then type msconfig and click on the Startup tab. Now, uncheck all the un-necessary items on the list. You have to Restart your computer for it to take affect.

Answer 5

just right click on these icons & click on exit / close.
if you also want to remove them from the start up of computer
press window+r & in the textbox just type "msconfig" & in the startup menu remove the programs that r not to start during the start up of the computer.

Note: some programs r neccessary to start up for fine operation of the computer. So be carefull.

Answer 6

Click Start, click Run then type msconfig. Under Startup, disable the items you do not want to run.

Answer 7

If your talking about when the computer starts up and your running Windows XP, go to start, run, and type msconfig.

go to the startup tab and uncheck what you dont want to start up.

Answer 8

To hide those icons... Right click taskbar below. Then click properties then on the task bar tab click on the customize button below then select which one you want to hide by clicking on the drop down menu... "Always hide, Hide when inactive, etc"

Goodluck!