Notifications Area Cleaner
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Notifications Area Cleaner
Notifications Area Cleaner is a utility to clear your notifications area (your tray icons). Using it is extremely easy and helps you maintain stealth when used in conjunction with another portable app that may use a tray icon (ie. KeePass)
Settings: None
Tested: Portable
Requirements: x86 only works on 32-bit, x64 only works on 64-bit.
Website: http://www.itsamples.com/notification-area-cleaner.html
Settings: None
Tested: Portable
Requirements: x86 only works on 32-bit, x64 only works on 64-bit.
Website: http://www.itsamples.com/notification-area-cleaner.html
Re: Notifications Area Cleaner
Thanks for posting it, BottleOfWater. NAC appears to be a GUI utility for tweaking the registry, but is definitely useful. Here's a screenie of the 64 bits version running in Windows 7 Ultimate SP1:
Re: Notifications Area Cleaner
@Midas
Did you run it on XP? Website says Win 7 only.
Also, app is buggy; right-clicking on the window border and selecting "about" cause it to crash.
Oh, Water, welcome - that's me being unusually nice
Did you run it on XP? Website says Win 7 only.
Also, app is buggy; right-clicking on the window border and selecting "about" cause it to crash.
Oh, Water, welcome - that's me being unusually nice
Re: Notifications Area Cleaner
I am Baas wrote:@Midas
Did you run it on XP? Website says Win 7 only.
- No (please read my one line post again); but I will now just to confirm...
I am Baas wrote:Oh, Water, welcome - that's me being unusually nice
- So, is this what "Baas 2.0" is about?
Re: Notifications Area Cleaner
Absolutely but not sure how long that will last... new technological developments and stuff and I already miss the old avatar. I feel that I will have to start cursing Andrew Lee soon.Midas wrote:I am Baas wrote:Oh, Water, welcome - that's me being unusually nice
- So, is this what "Baas 2.0" is about?
Re: Notifications Area Cleaner
Why is it taking so long, eh?Midas wrote:I am Baas wrote:@Midas
Did you run it on XP? Website says Win 7 only.
- No (please read my one line post again); but I will now just to confirm...
Re: Notifications Area Cleaner
Well, whaddyaknow, the 32 bit version of NAC does indeed work in Windows XP.
And from what I observed, it provides another welcome unforeseen feature: it simulates a full system restart without even having to logoff -- at least in what concerns re-starting the Explorer shell and launching autorun system start utilities. Definitely a keeper for that purpose alone.
And from what I observed, it provides another welcome unforeseen feature: it simulates a full system restart without even having to logoff -- at least in what concerns re-starting the Explorer shell and launching autorun system start utilities. Definitely a keeper for that purpose alone.
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Re: Notifications Area Cleaner
Nifty sleight of hand indeed, which can also be achieved without further ado (add-on ?) via WinXP Task Manager :Midas wrote:... it simulates a full system restart without even having to logoff -- at least in what concerns re-starting the Explorer shell and launching autorun system start utilities...
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CTL-ALT-DEL (Task Manager sesame)
in Process tab, select "explorer.exe"; click "End Process"
in File tab, click "New Task(Run...)"; enter "explorer.exe"; OK
But you knew that already, didn't you ?
Cheers,
__philippe
Re: Notifications Area Cleaner
__philippe wrote:But you knew that already, didn't you ?
- Indeed, my dear underscored friend.
In my XP rig, I run a portabilized version of Mike Lin's MCL (http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... .php?t=654), which has a special macro defined for this (with the help of TASKKILL: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=20411), so whenever thing go awry (and they do rather frequently), for me it's just a matter of 'CTRL+SHIFT+\' to invoke the MCL dialog, entering "killexp", and pressing 'ENTER' -- and the reason I use this method instead of the one you proposed is because it works even when the Explorer shell hangs...
Now, the downside of both methods is that about only half of my tray tools are restored afterwards, in contrast to what NAC was able to do...
Re: Notifications Area Cleaner
similar program here from LeeluSoft
http://leelusoft.altervista.org/tray-cleaner.html
i used Tray Cleaner first on Win7 and it left quite a bit of stuff and then NAC got rid of almost all of the rest of unwanted entries
http://leelusoft.altervista.org/tray-cleaner.html
i used Tray Cleaner first on Win7 and it left quite a bit of stuff and then NAC got rid of almost all of the rest of unwanted entries