> For years I had a Umax flatbed scanner connected by parallel > port to my XP system . On start up , it put an icon in the lower > right corner of my screen . > I've long since changed to a USB scanner on a fast USB port > and deleted all of the old scanner operating files which I could find . > XP still provides my with an icon telling me that it can't > find the old scanner on startup . The system works fine , including the > current scanner , but I can't figure out how to permanently eliminate the old > scanner icon . If anyone out there , like me , is still hanging on to > XP , do you have any idea about how to dump this icon ?
The most reliable way of dealing with this issue is to do what used to be called a nuke & pave i.e., save your data, erase every thing on the installation drive then reinstall XP then run install SP3, then finally allow it to update, and then finally reinstall all of your programs. That's a lot of work, but it works every time and most folks find their XP system runs a lot faster for a while since a lot of crud has been gotten rid of. The 2nd way is to look for the name in the registry with Regedit or some similar tool and then look for how to safely delete those entries. Playing with the registry has some risks since even folks who do it regularly can find themselves having to do the equivalent of a nuke & pave. Most folks try to save a set point before playing with the registry to prevent having to nuke and pave. A 3rd way which may work is to run MSconfig from the run line and look for the program which is being told to start, then set your XP to boot without it. This method seldom permanently ruins anything and should work except for programs which used some unorthodox method of inserting things in startup. There are undoubtedly others, personally if it's working, I'ld live with the warning since it's a minor annoyance on a working system. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
