How to clean up Past Items in Taskbar? WinXPhome

fimoulia · Corporal Joined: Apr 14, 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Belgium

Hey to all,
Smile

When I open Taskbar's Properties_Notification area_Customize_Past Items I see 30 items names left over by some previous ad/spyware and old programs which are gone since a long time already. Sad

Is there a way to clean it up? Spend a lot of time searching but can't find a thing about that. Will highly appreciate any recomendation and advice! Thank You

rancid_ilike · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject:

hi..
go n download Crap Cleaner 1.10.059

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4191.html

fimoulia · Corporal Joined: Apr 14, 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Belgium

rancid_ilike,

rancid_ilike · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 2:55 pm Post subject:

hii..

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4191.html

satchick · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 3:11 pm Post subject:

Hi again fimoulia!

I've got an answer for you:

Run REGEDIT and navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify

Just delete the IconStreams & PastIconsStream values.

I would export this key before clearing out the values just to be safe.

Here's the Microsoft doctrine on it:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as...=1&SD=HSCH

Hope this helps. Very Happy

fimoulia · Corporal Joined: Apr 14, 2004 Posts: 50 Location: Belgium

satchick, Hello again!
Very Happy

I feel like you are my Blues Brother Wink

I'm back from town and found your message. Just great! You struck again. It worked. It's done. Only deleting values is not enough. I also replaced the process explore.exe in the Task Manager as Microsoft says in its article. And the program that someone recommended me doesn't deal with this at all. Hey, are you there? Sad

Now tell me, satchick, how comes that you know so much and so kind-hearted!? What your Mom fed you with as a kid? I have a little daughter and want to give her the same.

Thanks A LOT again and my best regards. Very Happy

satchick · Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject:

You're most welcome fimoulia, glad it worked out for you Thumbs Up

It was just luck I came across your post as I was searching for something else and saw your name and thought... hey there's my pal, wonder if I could help again Wink

Take care. Very Happy

lilliebet65 · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 5:44 pm Post subject:

Glad we were able to help. Smile

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