Closing all programs in system tray

[Alexnm]

How do I close all those programs that keep running in the background (those which appear in the system tray)? I find it particularly tedious to right-click over their icons and choose "exit" or "close", one by one...

I'd like to close them all with a single click (well, two clicks is okay ). There was a program called EndItAll that could do that trick in my old Win98, but now I have WinXP and that program apparently doesn't work anymore.

Any ideas?

(And don't say "don't load those programs when starting Windows", I actually use all of them -- well, most of them. )

 

[Comraddict]

msconfig.exe is good program for beginners. simply go to start, run and type msconfig. go to last tab called startup and deselect uninvited guests.

 

[Archer 007]

MSCONFIG is what i did also.

 

[Alexnm]

the problem with msconfig is that i'd permanently disable things from loading at start, and i don't want that, because i really need some of those programs (firewall, for instance).

 

[ainwood]

Well, why don't you use Msconfig to disable them at start-up, but create shortcuts to them all, and store them in the quicklaunch bar. That way, when you need them again its a single-click.

 

[Alexnm]

that's not a bad idea at all, ainwood. thanx for the suggestion. :b:

but another thing that occurred me is that, since i'm using XP, i could create another account and set it up so that it doesn't load those programs at start up.

 

[Souron]

Does that work? I know msconfig. does not work on non admin acounts.