Hello there; if you wish to remove icons from your system tray,
you should first check to see if there is an option within the program, to not have the icon placed in the system tray, you can also remove some items from, start programs/startup. otherwise, you can try; 1, desktop, 2, tab to the start button, 3, now press applications key, and up arrow enter on properties. 4, you need to make sure your on the taskbar tab, so when you enter on properties, shift tab one time, now, use your left arrow key, you should hear taskbar tab. 5, now tab, and press spacebar on, hide inactive icons, now tab once more and enter on, notification area customize....button. 6, now, you can arrow to the icon which you would like to remove, now, right arrow to open, you will be in a combo box, with 3 choices. make your choice, now, tab to okay, press enter. hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Barbara" <mb69ma...@charter.net> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] system tray icons Hi Norma; Check the box " hide inactive icons ", tab 1 time and press space bar / enter on " notification area customize button ". The " hide inactive icons " box has to be checked or the " notification area customize button " won't appear. Hope this 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: Monday, March 29, 2010 12:13 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] system tray icons Hi Mike, I'm running Win XP Home and I do not see the notification area customize dialogue. The only features I have for notification area are show the clock and hide inactive icons. Can you provide further directions? Thanks so much, Norma At 10:06 PM 3/28/2010, you wrote: >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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
