Notifications Area Cleaner

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Notifications Area Cleaner

#1 Post by BottleOfWater »

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)

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Tested: Portable
Requirements: x86 only works on 32-bit, x64 only works on 64-bit.

Website: http://www.itsamples.com/notification-area-cleaner.html

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Re: Notifications Area Cleaner

#2 Post by Midas »

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:
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#3 Post by I am Baas »

@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 :)

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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? :D

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Midas wrote:
I am Baas wrote:Oh, Water, welcome - that's me being unusually nice :)
  • So, is this what "Baas 2.0" is about? :D
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.

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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... :)
Why is it taking so long, eh? :evil: :wink:

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#7 Post by Midas »

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.

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#8 Post by __philippe »

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...
Nifty sleight of hand indeed, which can also be achieved without further ado (add-on ?) via WinXP Task Manager :

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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
...et voila!...simulated reboot

But you knew that already, didn't you ? ;-)

Cheers,

__philippe

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#9 Post by Midas »

__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... :mrgreen:

    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...

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#10 Post by bitcoin »

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

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