Saw this article on a little program that cleans what it calls "Past Icons" from the registry. The first thing I thought when reading this was, "I wonder if CCleaner does this?"
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Cleaning Past Icons?
Started by Evan, Apr 10 2008 04:43 AM
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Posted 10 April 2008 - 08:55 AM
CCleaner has had that ability from the very first versions. 
It's listed in Cleaner->Advanced->Tray Notifications Cache
The only thing though you have to manually end Explorer.exe for them to be cleaned, then manually restart Explorer.exe (all done via CTRL+ALT+DEL).
The really easy way of getting rid of them is what I've always used which is a script by Doug Knox and Kelly Theriot available at http://www.kellys-ko...m/xp_tweaks.htm, it's: 53. Remove Past Items From Notification Area. This script automatically ends, then restarts Explorer.exe - of course I've found out that you actually need to restart Windows afterwards in order to configure the icons display settings.
It's listed in Cleaner->Advanced->Tray Notifications Cache
The only thing though you have to manually end Explorer.exe for them to be cleaned, then manually restart Explorer.exe (all done via CTRL+ALT+DEL).
The really easy way of getting rid of them is what I've always used which is a script by Doug Knox and Kelly Theriot available at http://www.kellys-ko...m/xp_tweaks.htm, it's: 53. Remove Past Items From Notification Area. This script automatically ends, then restarts Explorer.exe - of course I've found out that you actually need to restart Windows afterwards in order to configure the icons display settings.
