Removing icon In Task Bar

ok, limewire is a p2p and its set to start with your windows, removing the shortcut does nothing.

 

we have 2 options:

 

1. keep limewire but stop it from automatically loading with windows.

 

2. uninstall limewire completely off of your pc.

 

which would you like?  

Otiss:

 

Thanks for your response

 

It is LimeWire 4.16.6.

 

                          Stewart Fluney

what I con is this? for what application?

Otiss:

 

Thanks for your response.

 

I would like to keep LimeWire but stop it from automatically loading with windows.

 

Please advise further.

 

                          Stewart Fluney

please go here and download CCleaner

 

then install it, then do this:

 

 

 

let me know when you have done this 

whilst Ccleaner is a good tool, it would be simplier to just go into msconfig>startup and uncheck the revelent entry.

unlike with using Ccleaner, you can restart the program at windows startup at a future date by re-checking the check box in startup.

Actually setting your windows to not startup normal is not recommended by MS or me, yes its the easy way but no its not the proper way.

 

 

An OS needs to start normally, otherwise at some point down the road it will have a conflict with something.

 

msconfig is not there to change boot options permanently as far as I know.

 

I always go by how I wanted to be treated and if somebody advised me to change how windows boots just to stop an app from starting that would really tick me off.

 

but to each his own

 

 

also ccleaner is one time thing, you install it one time and after that adjusting startups is very easy and its a great tool for cleaning so its a good ammo to have in your arsenal

with all due respect you are wrong, msconfig is there for testing purposes not permanent, otherwise you would not get a prompt saying you have started windows abnormally and that if you have choose to ignore that message to not see it again.

 

if it was there for that reason then you would not get that message ;)

 

and I dont' appreciate your personal comment of saying I don't understand something, based on what fact did you think I'm the one missing the point? What facts did you use?

 

fact: ms will tell you themselves that msconfig is not for permanent use.

 

fact: you know its not meant for permanent use cause of the prompt you have to ignore

 

fact: you know its not meant for permanent use because aftar you change and reboot and go to msconfig you will see its not set to boot in normal mode.

 

those are the facts and not my opinion, now you tell me you facts, not what you or anybody else thinks, show me some facts.

 

you can start by telling us why setting windows to not boot in normal manner is a good idea when it can be easily avoided.

 

now you got personal by trying to say I don't understand something, I'm not gonna go to that level, you wanna discuss then lets discuss but keep your personal comments to yourself or you can pm me with them.

 

you are right bad advise is horrable, for example advising people not to start windows in a normal fashion.

All:

This is the third time this week I have had to come in remind people that we are all on the same side here.

I, as would others, would be more than interested in a healthy and constructive debate as to which is the proper way to disable an program from startup, but this does need to be done without insults to one another.

So keep it nice and state your case. If that's not possible, than there is certainly no need to respond.

 

Oh yeah!!  Everyone do the "Happy Friday Dance" :smileyvery-happy:

Otiss,

 

Your comments about msconfig are absurd. As bacillus already indicated, msconfig is there exactly for the purpose of disabling items that you don't want to start automatically every time you boot the PC. But, you can always go back into msconfig and re-check the box if you change your mind and want something to start automatically at boot up again.

 

As for not being a "normal" startup, I don't know where you got that notion either.  After you make a change on Startup tab in msconfig and reboot, Windows gives you a notice about "selective startup".  All that means is some items listed on the Startup tab haven't started. Put a check in the "Don't show this again" box and Windows will understand that you have purposely changed the settings in msconfig. You won't see that message again, unless/until you make more changes in msconfig.

 

Please, if you don't understand things, don't give advice. Bad advice is worse than no advice, especially when it comes to PCs and Microsoft products.

 

Ron 

Just so we are clear I was the first one to respond in this thread so this is not a case of me posting in somebody else's thread, so you know I'm not breaking any rules and am respecting your wishes.

 

other then that,

 

TGIF yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy, me doing the the friday happy dance :smileyvery-happy:

:smileyvery-happy:

thats another way of doing it ;)

Why not just go into the setting for the program and find the startup options.. 99% of them have options to stop the program from running at start up..usually the first thing i look for..if not then is on to autoruns...

bacillus:

 

The matter of eliminating the LimeWire icon in the System Tray has now been resolved.

 

Through an oversight, I didn't notice this option was available through the Tools, Options, System Tray of the LimeWire program.  I have used that option in this case.

 

Many thanks for your response and advice in this respect.

 

                        Stewart Fluney

Otiss:

 

The matter of eliminating the LimeWire icon in the System Tray has now been resolved.

 

Through an oversight, I didn't notice this option was available through the Tools, Options, System Tray of the LimeWire program.  I have used that option in this case.

 

 Many thanks for your response and advice in this respect.

 

                           Stewart Fluney