dobermat Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Clear Past Icons from the Tray Notification Area on Windows XP. I suggest to add this feature in the next release, so It allows you to clear the Past Items list in the customized notifications area of the systray. The key in the registry is: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify] To clear the notification history manually I have to delete the values called "IconStreams" and "PastIconsStream". Instead of deleting this registry entry I'd like to see this feature added to CCleaner please let me know Best regards dobermat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyKlein Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hi and welcome. In fact that feature is already there. Check Windows > Advanced > Tray Notifications Cache. ... will clear: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify|IconStreams HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify|PastIconsStream Tony CLSID List - A Collection of Autostart Locations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Also worth metioning that after cleaning you have to stop explore.exe vial task manager, and then restart explore.exe. PS. rebooting the PC does not achieve this Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit - IE11 - Nod32 - Mbam pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyKlein Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 PS. rebooting the PC does not achieve this As far I'm aware, when you reboot (ie shut down and restart) your PC ALL processes, not excluding explorer.exe are most definitely terminated and subsequently restarted... Tony CLSID List - A Collection of Autostart Locations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 As far I'm aware, when you reboot (ie shut down and restart) your PC ALL processes, not excluding explorer.exe are most definitely terminated and subsequently restarted... I'll take your word for that Tony, but can assure you, that stopping and restarting explorer via task manager. is the only way to complete Ccleaners action. Its a queery thats come up several times. Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit - IE11 - Nod32 - Mbam pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators TwistedMetal Posted September 18, 2006 Moderators Share Posted September 18, 2006 To Clear Tray Notification... You have to end process on explorer.exe and start it back up. Simply rebooting your PC will have no effect. (Tested and proved by me) Your Friendly Neighborhood Piriform Forum Moderator Quick Links: CCleaner Products | CCleaner Documentation | Knowledge Center | Downloads | Lost License Key Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyKlein Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 I believe you, but someone will have to explain to me how that could be the case. After all, all processes ARE being terminated and relaunched when you reboot. Tony CLSID List - A Collection of Autostart Locations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators TwistedMetal Posted September 18, 2006 Moderators Share Posted September 18, 2006 I don't exactly know. Even the Microsoft site doesn't say. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283084 Your Friendly Neighborhood Piriform Forum Moderator Quick Links: CCleaner Products | CCleaner Documentation | Knowledge Center | Downloads | Lost License Key Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyKlein Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 I tested, and you're absolutely right, of course. I guess it needs certain other system files to be running... Tony CLSID List - A Collection of Autostart Locations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chungalin Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 I guess that it's related to how Explorer.exe reads and stores its settings from/to System Registry. Explorer reads its settings from Registry when starting. Any changes you do via its own configuration panels and dialogboxes is stored in its process' local memory, not directly into the Registry. When Explorer is closed (on system shutdown for instance) it saves its settings back to Registry. Therefore, if you update registry keys/values related to Explorer while it's "alive" and you shut down your PC normally, it will overwrite your changes on system shutdown. However, if you kill Explorer via Task Manager, you give Explorer no chance to write back its local copy of settings, and then when it restarts it will use any settings hacked into the Registry by you. By the way, is there any way to tell Explorer not to store any history in these TrayNotify registry values? It seems that it has been storing that useless stuff even if "Hide inactive icons" was disabled by me from the very first day I installed Windows XP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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