Do you have a long list of past items in your taskbar and want to get rid of them? Here is how you do it. **CAUTION** PLAYING IN THE REGISTRY CAN REALLY MESS UP YOUR COMPUTER be careful and follow instructions exactly. Backing up the registry first is a good idea. OK here goes! 1. Click Start 2. Click Run 3. Type regedit 4. Open Regedit Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify 5. Delete the IconStreams and PastIconsStream values 6. Open Task Manager, click the Processes tab, click Explorer.exe , and then click End Process . 7. In Task Manager, click File , click New Task , type explorer , and then click OK . 8. That's it your done.

SWEET! Thanks for the post! I had asked how to do this earlier today and nobody posted a real answer! You da man!