On the lower right side of the taskbar where the little icons are, there is a upward pointing triangle. If i click "Customize", i get to see the tiny icons of programs I once had, but uninstalled as well. How do I exile the tiny icons of uninstalled programs. The fact they stay there bothers me even after properly uninstalling.

Addenda: For example, I uninstalled HDTune and Everest from my laptop, but since they had little taskbar icons in the lower right, they stay there even after I uninstalled them. Is there something in the registry that I can use to manually eradicate them. It bothers me they stayed there.


Jason

Tried using cCleaner and run it through the Clean and Registry Clean options first?

cheers ...

surprisingly, i found the solution by dumb luck. Go into task manager, end the process tree for explorer.exe. And Re-run explorer.exe and it wipes it all away!

Go fig.

That does make some sense, due to the caching. OS bug Good stumbling upon here Ganzo

cheers ...

You can also use CCleaner for this: in the "Advanced" area, tick the "Tray Notifications Cache" box.
Make sure you kill the "explorer.exe" process (use the task manager to do this) after CCleaner is done. Then just use the run command and re-launch "explorer.exe". Ta-da!!