Curious to know about an icon I cant seem to get off

What is a S3 Control taskbar utility?

[jtmoney77]

The S3 Control taskbar utility icon appears on the tool bar at the bottom of my desktop. When I right click it, a check mark appears next to the letters CRT. This icon just started appearing and I cant get it off. Does anyone know what this is or how I can get it off?

Thanks,
Jeremy

[bcolflesh]

If I remember correctly, that is the utility for for S3 chipset-based graphics cards.

Utility for removing startup items:
mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

[jtmoney77]

Would it be bad if I removed it? What programs would it affect?

Thanks

[robert adams]

You can take pretty much anything you want out of the system tray. All they are, are shortcuts, just like on your desktop.
You will not be uninstalling or deleting the programs at all. You will still be able to access the program if you want bu using the program manager or windows explorer or whatever.
luck,
robert

[vrtlw]

All they are, are shortcuts, just like on your desktop.

This is just not true, they are programs that are running. If you are unsure of this then try removing your antivirus from the system tray for a few weeks!

[robert adams]

Well, I stand somewhat corrected. They are not shortcuts like on your desktop.
You can turn them off from msconfig and just access them as you need them.
My point was that most of the things that get put in the sys tray don't need to be loaded at startup and you can turn that function off. I like to have control over what is running and when ( at least as much control as MS let's me have).

thanks,
robert

[jtmoney77]

You can take pretty much anything you want out of the system tray

How do I remove something from the sys tray?

Thanks,
Jeremy

[PatrickDeese]

usually if you click on it, you will get a menu of options, just look for something like "preferences" and then look for something that says like "launch on start up".

[Stefan]

The programs in the system tray that you see every time you boot-up are started at the boot. With Windows, (up to WinMe... I don't know XP), you can check the start-up folder in programs. You can download a start-up manager that you can use. Spybot Search and Destroy has a System Startup function that will do it... it's a good program to have anyway to clean out scumware. It's also beneficial to hit alt-cntrl-del every once a while to see what's running that isn't in the system tray... some things will sneak in along with downloads.

ADDED: And what PatrickDeese said.

[vrtlw]

Normally all of the items that are run that can't be found in the startup group can be found in the registry at:

Start > Run > Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Run

You will need to ascertain which executable to remove and then delete the value for it. This will work for any version of windows above Windows For Workgroups 3.11.

[robert adams]

Be very very careful if you decide to edit the registry. You can make your machine unusable if you change the wrong thing.
To get rid of most of the things in your system tray, do this.
go to start then run, type in msconfig. choose the startup tab, uncheck things that you don't want to start when you start your computer. If you do them one at a time and reboot, you can solve many problems by the process of elimination.
If you turn off something that you find you need or want, just recheck it and reboot.

There are a couple of places in the registry that make things run at startup. If you are comfortable working in the registry, you can do a search for Run and RunOnce in the registry and modify those entries to not run.

luck and joy,
robert