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Printer icon in SysTray always shows?

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yuppicide

Flightless Bird
Not sure what happened, but the printer icon always shows in the SysTray.

I have "Hide when inactive", but it doesn't hide. I can say "Always hide"
but it's still there when I click that little arrow to open the SysTray. It
used to never show at all unless printing.

Also when I go into where I set the options and look under "Past Items"
theres a lot of entries in there for items I no longer even have installed
on my computer. Is there a way to get those not to show in there?
 
D

Don Phillipson

Flightless Bird
"yuppicide" <yuppicide138@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:-OupxGSp1KHA.3868@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> Not sure what happened, but the printer icon always shows in the SysTray.
> I have "Hide when inactive", but it doesn't hide. I can say "Always hide"
> but it's still there when I click that little arrow to open the SysTray.
It
> used to never show at all unless printing.

1: Quick Check: inspect MSCONFIG (last panel) to see
whether any of the ticked startup items looks like a printer
monitor app. (Various brands have various types of monitor.)

2. Slow Checks (because Detailed:)
2a: in /Computer Admin . . . / Services
look for a nonessential printer service you can turn off.
2b: Ctl Alt Del to load Systems manager, then inspect what
processes are loaded (viz. occupying memory space.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
 
J

Jose

Flightless Bird
On Apr 7, 4:54 pm, "yuppicide" <yuppicide...@optonline.net> wrote:
> Not sure what happened, but the printer icon always shows in the SysTray.
>
> I have "Hide when inactive", but it doesn't hide. I can say "Always hide"
> but it's still there when I click that little arrow to open the SysTray. It
> used to never show at all unless printing.
>
> Also when I go into where I set the options and look under "Past Items"
> theres a lot of entries in there for items I no longer even have installed
> on my computer. Is there a way to get those not to show in there?

If there is nothing to print, there should not be a printer icon
displayed so it may be something else. Do you have anything stuck in
your print queue? Open your printer and be sure it looks okay
(empty).

Hover the mouse over the icon for a pop up clue, or right click,
Properties and be sure what it is first and report back if you cannot
figure it out. Many things that install put a "helpful" icon in the
Notification Area and some things can be configured not to do that.
First make sure what it is, then decide what to do.

To clean up those annoying Past Items in the Customize Notifications
section, read and implement this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283084

I see there is a Fix it option on that page now... I have never tried
the Fix it option before - I just do the registry edit.

That may fix your other problem too - reboot after making changes and
see what it looks like when you are all done.

If you choose to fix it yourself via the registry and maybe learn a
thing or two in the process, safety first.:

Before making any changes to your registry, back it up with this
popular free tool:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
 
C

C.Joseph Drayton

Flightless Bird
On 4/7/2010 2:54 PM, yuppicide wrote:
> Not sure what happened, but the printer icon always shows in the SysTray.
>
> I have "Hide when inactive", but it doesn't hide. I can say "Always hide"
> but it's still there when I click that little arrow to open the SysTray. It
> used to never show at all unless printing.
>
> Also when I go into where I set the options and look under "Past Items"
> theres a lot of entries in there for items I no longer even have installed
> on my computer. Is there a way to get those not to show in there?
>
>
Does the printer have a card reader built into it? I have a HP 7700 and
it has a card reader so that I can print directly from the card and it
is always in the system tray even if I don't have a card in the printer.
The card reader itself is simply grabbing a position on the system bus.

Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services

Web site: http://csdcs.site90.net/
E-mail: c.joseph@csdcs.site90.net
 
Y

yuppicide

Flightless Bird
I think that was the answer.

Something earlier in the day was stuck in print queue by mistake. I got rid
of it and rebooting must have solved the problem because it's not happening
today.

I didn't remember something stuck in queue until I just read this.. Thanks!

"Jose" <jose_ease@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:41c57081-b0bb-46a2-b92c-d3e5efe784b4@z3g2000yqz.googlegroups.com...
On Apr 7, 4:54 pm, "yuppicide" <yuppicide...@optonline.net> wrote:
> Not sure what happened, but the printer icon always shows in the SysTray.
>
> I have "Hide when inactive", but it doesn't hide. I can say "Always hide"
> but it's still there when I click that little arrow to open the SysTray.
> It
> used to never show at all unless printing.
>
> Also when I go into where I set the options and look under "Past Items"
> theres a lot of entries in there for items I no longer even have installed
> on my computer. Is there a way to get those not to show in there?

If there is nothing to print, there should not be a printer icon
displayed so it may be something else. Do you have anything stuck in
your print queue? Open your printer and be sure it looks okay
(empty).

Hover the mouse over the icon for a pop up clue, or right click,
Properties and be sure what it is first and report back if you cannot
figure it out. Many things that install put a "helpful" icon in the
Notification Area and some things can be configured not to do that.
First make sure what it is, then decide what to do.

To clean up those annoying Past Items in the Customize Notifications
section, read and implement this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283084

I see there is a Fix it option on that page now... I have never tried
the Fix it option before - I just do the registry edit.

That may fix your other problem too - reboot after making changes and
see what it looks like when you are all done.

If you choose to fix it yourself via the registry and maybe learn a
thing or two in the process, safety first.:

Before making any changes to your registry, back it up with this
popular free tool:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
 
J

Jose

Flightless Bird
On Apr 9, 12:37 pm, "yuppicide" <yuppicide...@optonline.net> wrote:
> I think that was the answer.
>
> Something earlier in the day was stuck in print queue by mistake. I got rid
> of it and rebooting must have solved the problem because it's not happening
> today.
>
> I didn't remember something stuck in queue until I just read this.. Thanks!
>
> "Jose" <jose_e...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>

Good.

Did you clean up those old references to Past Items in the
Notification Area using that KB?

Here is a way to clean up any of those stuck print queue items when
rebooting does not work:

To empty the print queue, stop the Print Spooler service and remove
all files from here:

C:/windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS
 
Y

yuppicide

Flightless Bird
Yes, thanks. Cleared up the past items too. The only thing I wouldn't
recommend is running that fix while you're doing any work. I had some
software running in the background, which was doing something, the fix
cleaned up everything nicely, but it also closed the program I needed. Only
took me a few minutes to recreate what I was working on, so it wasn't that
bad.


"Jose" <jose_ease@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:17c2c447-6382-470a-a076-e761e797c01c@r27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
On Apr 9, 12:37 pm, "yuppicide" <yuppicide...@optonline.net> wrote:
> I think that was the answer.
>
> Something earlier in the day was stuck in print queue by mistake. I got
> rid
> of it and rebooting must have solved the problem because it's not
> happening
> today.
>
> I didn't remember something stuck in queue until I just read this..
> Thanks!
>
> "Jose" <jose_e...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>

Good.

Did you clean up those old references to Past Items in the
Notification Area using that KB?

Here is a way to clean up any of those stuck print queue items when
rebooting does not work:

To empty the print queue, stop the Print Spooler service and remove
all files from here:

C:/windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS
 
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