Modify the registry to remove redundant Win 7 notification icons

In Windows 7, the system integrates the icon display mode of the notification area. Due to the limited size of the notification area, we can click Customize in the notification area to set whether the display status of each icon is always displayed, or only when it is active, or remain hidden. But with the use of the system, the installed software increases, we will find some software even if we have uninstalled and no longer use, but the related icons will still exist in the customized settings list, the form will come with the system The longer it is.

So can we clean up the icons that are no longer needed? Please try the following steps:

1. Click Start, type regedit in the search program and file input box and press Enter. The Registry Editor is open.

2. Expand and define the following two registry keys: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Local Settings\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\TrayNotify

3. Move In addition to the two key values ​​of IconStreams and PastIconsStreams. Before deleting, you can right-click to export and back up the TrayNotify item. 4. Press Ctrl, Alt, Delete at the same time, select task management, in the process, find explorer.exe, and terminate the item, click "File, New Task, Input Explorer in Task Manager again. Enter, in order to restart the system process.

After the use process, in the process of generating unwanted icons, just call up the task manager to abort the explorer.exe process, and then in the task manager Re-create the process in .