Right click an empty space on the taskbar. Now click, Properties, Taskbar, Customize, and look under Current Items, click under Behavior an item you wish to hide. You will then have the option to change how this icon appears by clicking the V and looking at the options.
Actually, the above method only allows you to HIDE the icons. They are still there though, and still make booting up slower. To actually REMOVE them from the tray, you have to go to the Start Menu/Run... then type "msconfig". Then just uncheck the items you want to remove from the Taskbar.
If you want to remove a single program from the taskbar you simply right click on the unwanted program and click on delete.
Note this will not remove the program from the computer just the taskbar shortcut.
The icons on the right, next to the clock are known as the 'system tray' icons. These icons are actually programs that are currently running and therefore in most cases you will not want to remove them however you may want to 'hide' them. Do this by RIGHT clicking on the system tray and choosing PROPERTIES and then CUSTOMIZE button. You can choose "always show" (I recommend this for antivirus and volume control for sure) "hide when inactive" this is what they will most be set as at first, you should change these to "always hide" when you know you don't need to see any changes for monitoring.
If you have Windows XP:
If you have Windows Vista/Windows 7:
Taskbar holds icons for running applications on your system.
Whatever icons YOU choose to pin !... It's entirely up to you !
This will show you how to turn a system icon on the taskbar on or off.
No, the taskbar does. The system tray is also located in the task bar. Quick launch was removed in Windows 7, and replaced by a new taskbar that lets you pin icons to it.
the taskbar is the bar which runs across the bottom of your screen. the bottom right is where icons for programs which are running usually appear.
System tray
No - system restore is designed to 'roll back' your computer to a point in time before a problem occurred. It will undo installations, but not restore deleted files.
Right-click on your taskbar, if a tick is next to the Lock taskbar option, make sure it is disabled. After that click and drag your taskbar to the bottom or top of the screen.
I got rid of some unused icons and found that 2 I use alot were also deleted! Help.
There are alot of things you can do with a Taskbar. Yes, you can customize the task bar. You can change the color and add for icons to it. As well as add any webpages you requent.
Right click on taskbar select Properties. If Lock the Taskbar is selected then unselect it. Click OK. Left click and hold on the Taskbar and drag and drop it where you want it.
Right click on the start button. Select properties, click the taskbar tab, then put a checkmark in the box, where it says "auto hide the taskbar" Now click apply then ok..Good Luck..