That icon will stay there so long as you have a USB device hooked to your system, IE an external drive or sound card for an example. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com Life is what happens after you have already made other plans. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia" <pzoell...@tx.rr.com> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 11:47 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] system tray icons
Mike, Is this for xp users? I kind of don't have the same thing showing on the task bar as you said here.. Would this work to get rid of the, safely remove hardware item that no matter how many times I go through that thang to safely remove hardware and I get the bling sound telling me it's ok to safely remove hardware, but there it stays in the system tray, never leaving.. Patricia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Barbara" <mb69ma...@charter.net> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] system tray icons > Hi Norma; > > Follow the steps below. > Follow these steps to remove unwanted icons from the System Tray: > > 1. Press Windows key, then Escape. > 2. Tab to the Task Bar and press Alt-Enter to bring up the Task Bar > Properties dialog. > 3. On the Task Bar page, tab to the Notification area customize dialog > and > hit Enter. > 4. Arrow down the list of icons and find the icon you want to remove or > "hide". Press the right arrow to the combo box and select "always hide". > 5. Repeat step 4 for each icon you want to hide. > 6. Tab to Okay, hit Space and tab again to Okay and hit Space. That's it. > Hope that helps. Take care. > Gerald > Hope that helps. Take care. > Mike, > It's tax time! Remember folks, if you add, IRS to the word, the, you get > "T > H E I R S ". That spells THEIRS! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Norma A. Boge > To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 7:23 PM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] system tray icons > > > I've got system tray items I would like to remove. They are the same > ones that come up every time I view the system tray and I do not need > them in my system tray. So how do I make the change so they don't > show up there? > > Thanks, > Norma > > At 12:48 PM 3/28/2010, you wrote: > > Anna, the system tray icons usually disappear when the program > > they are referring to is no longer active. You may already know > > this but the system tray is simply a sub-window which shows the > > computer operator exactly which programs are currently active at > > any one time. The contents of the tray changes regularly. > > > >John Justice > > > >-------------------------------------------------- > >From: "chris hallsworth" <christopher...@googlemail.com> > >Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:03 PM > >To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> > >Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] system tray icons > > > >>Is hide inactive icons checked at all? If so they should be > >>unchecked. It's in the taskbar page of taskbar and start menu > >>properties, accessed with alt+enter from anywhere but the desktop list > view. > >> > >> > >> > >>Chris Hallsworth > >>E-mail and Facebook: christopher...@googlemail.com > >>MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com > >>Skype: chrishallsworth7266 > >>Twitter: www.twitter.com/christopherh40 > >> > >>On 03/03/2010 17:25, Anna Vimini wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>>I am using Jaws 4.5 with windows XP. > >>>and I would like to know when an icon suddenly disappears from > >>>your system tray , how do you put it back into the system tray > >>>without restarting your computer? > >>>thanks in advance > >>>Anna > >>>For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > >>>http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > >> > >>For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > >>http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > > > >For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > >http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
