rgdawson wrote: 
> I assume you are showing me the "Select which icons appear on the
> taskbar" area from Taskbar Settings?  On/Off here controls whether the
> _tray_icon_ appears on the taskbar or stays in the non-visible area of
> the tray icons.  (Btw, as an alternative to going into settings and
> using the toggles, you can just drag a tray icon from taskbar to hidden
> area or vice-versa.)
> 
> Windows seems to remember any application that has ever created tray
> icon and remembers where you want it to appear, either on the taskbar or
> in hidden area.  I'm thinking that you have run both the traditional
> installer version and the Windows Store version in the past, so windows
> is remembering (caching) both.  I guess Windows distinguishes according
> to exe filename.
> 
> It seems once you run an application that creates a tray icon, Windows
> remembers it forever.  Even after you uninstall it.  I see this with
> both the store/appx version and non-store version and even dev versions
> on my machine.  Presumably there would be a way to remove it on
> uninstall, but I have not found it.  Upon reading your message, I went
> in and looked and I saw all sorts of obsolete apps in that list on my
> machine.
> 
> The only solution I have for you, which I tried and it worked, is a
> utility called "Notification Area Cleaner".  It is an exe that runs a
> script to delete those obsolete cached entries.  I tried doing it
> manually but that does not work because for it to work explorer.exe must
> be temporarily terminated, then restarted - else the cache does not
> really get removed.
> 
> I downloaded the utility from CNET.  If you google "Notification Area
> Cleaner" you should find it.  There are different versions for
> 32-bit/64-bit OS version so download accordingly.  For Windows 10, I
> used "run as administrator", then pressed the Clean button.  It worked
> fine.  The version I used said "for Windows 7", but worked fine on
> Windows 10.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> R Greg Dawson

Yes, that's what the pic shows (and thanks for the tip for dragging).
FWIW I have only ever installed from Microsoft Store, not standalone
installer.  Regardless I appreciate the reference to the cleaner, I will
give it a go.

TomS



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