How to really get rid of notification icons in the notification area?

Problem:  I had installed and uninstalled Driver Robot, and it still shows in the notification list.  Even tells me the icon is not currently active.

Solution: To remove it,

1. Go to the registry editor. (Start/Run/regedit) - If you don't know what this is, don't do it!

2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify

3. Delete "PasteIconsSteam" and "IconStreams" keys.

4. Close the registry editor and then go into Task Manager and kill the "Explorer.exe" process.

5. Restart your computer and hopefully the uninstalled programs should disappear from your notification area!

Hope this helps.  Tom aka Iomegaman  (not Tom of Tomax7)

 ;-)

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