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Removing killed processes from Windows taskbar notification area

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Mar 15, 20262993 views
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There are some windows programs that create an icon in the taskbar notification area. Even after these processes are killed, their taskbar icon remains there, until you hover your mouse over it, then it disappears. Is there another way to make them disappear without having to hover the mouse over t…

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Fix for: Removing killed processes from Windows taskbar notification area

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Unfortunately the answer is no - And this is also the same on Windows Vista and Windows 7. The reason for this is that they are displayed by the Explorer process and unless the application safely quits, it sends no notification to Explorer about dis…

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