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 SB3(1), Boom(2), Radio(3), piCorePlayer (1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TomS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12525 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108550 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
