Greetings Vinsvixen2,
I have not used Win XP extensively, but I will try to give you a
solution from personal knowledge. For one thing, that "Millenium
keyboard" icon is a program that loads on startup, so you will have to
disable that.
In any solution you could try, you should find out what program that
is in the systray. When you right-click on it, does it show
Properties, or Options that include being able to disable the program
from loading at startup? Perhaps that is the first thing you should
find, and you might be able to disable its startup loading using the
program's own options.
Another solution is to to type "msconfig" is the "Start" then "Run"
command and it will open a dialogue box with several tabs (By the way,
I'm a Win 98SE user, but I saw from the source below that Win XP has
an msconfig command too). If there is a "Startup" tab, click on that.
There's a list of startup programs with checkboxes on the left. Any
program that will load on startup has a check in the box. If you know
what item here represents that systray program, uncheck it so it won't
load the next time you boot up. Be sure not to uncheck important items
such as System Tray, Power Profile, Powerprofile and Task Monitor.
Source:
XP Msconfig
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_msconfig.htm
Google search term used:
win xp disable startup
I hope this has been a most helpful answer. If you have any problem
with it, do please post a Request for Clarification and I shall
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Request for Answer Clarification by
vinsvixen2-ga
on
29 Jun 2003 12:48 PDT
hi,
thanx for the quick reply. yes, when i right-clicked on it in the
systray, the 2 options i mentioned before are what came up. but
neither of those made the icon go away permanently. there didn't seem
to be one for a permanent removal. also, yes, i did the "msconfig"
thing, and looked at the "startup" tab. there were about 10 things
listed & checked, and i didn't know which was specifically for the
keyboard, so i was hoping someone on GA could tell me. do i just
randomly uncheck stuff until i find the right one? i'm not that
comfortable doing that because i don't know what i'm tinkering around
with in there. i just KNOW i'll uncheck some vitally important thing
& make the whole computer blow up or some such! :-)
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Clarification of Answer by
techtor-ga
on
29 Jun 2003 13:09 PDT
Vinsvixen2,
Hmmm... on the the startup list you have, it would certainly help to
know what those items are... I wonder if you could put up a screenshot
(picture) of that startup list, or maybe list them here. Then I could
suggest what items to try unchecking to test and see if that icon's
program will be removed.
If you double left-click that icon in the systray, what comes out?
Maybe the application it represents will open in full and you can find
its options or preferences to adjust, maybe an option is available for
unchecking, relating to its activating at startup.
Secre901's suggestion below would probably work, if you think you
could let the program run, and you just don't want to see it. But I
suppose you want it off first of all.
Hope you can try these for now. Thanks.
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