re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 6:30 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jagged ben (3536 messages posted) You can only do it by going into the registry and blowing away all the hide/show data. Start Menu, Run, type: regedit navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify delete the IconStreams and PastIconStreams binaries on the right hand side Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL > Processes tab > select explorer.exe and click End Process To get your desktop back, choose New Task and type: explorer Go back to taskbar properties and redo your customization. On Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 12:06 pm, alan wrote: >I have a question about Get >rid of Shortcut Residue: >how can you get rid of the "past items "in the taskbar menu. START/PROPERTIES/TASKBAR/CUSTOMIZE > Written in response to: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (alan: Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 12:06 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Angel: Friday, October 24, 2003 at 10:26 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (alan: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 12:06 pm) re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Adam the Wiseguy: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 12:21 pm) re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (jagged ben: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 6:29 pm) re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (jagged ben: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 6:30 pm) re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Angel: Fri, Oct 24, 2003, 10:26 am) re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Aja Gupta: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 2:47 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum