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Old February 19th 14, 07:18 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Tony
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

The .bat file works in DOS even though windows 7 has no DOS mode.

Dennis wrote:

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:01:04 -0500, Ron opined:

On 2/18/2014 3:26 PM, Dennis wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:00:10 -0500, Ron opined:

On 2/18/2014 12:14 PM, Dennis wrote:
I have a new Win7Pro HP notebook which came with McAfee. Since I wanted
a different antivir prog I followed McAfee's instructions to uninstall
it from the Control Panel, then ran the McAfee cleaner prog to remove
any remnants. It seemed to go fine, and I successfully installed another
antivir.

But McUicnt.exe still shows up in the Notification Tray ... meaning that
when I click Customize it is listed along side everything else.

I know I can set it to hide all the time, but I would just as soon get
rid of it entirely.

I tried deleting the two keys from the registry
(http://www.itsamples.com/notificatio...-cleaner.html), but after a
restart the damn thing is back!

I tried searching the hard drive for McUicnt.exe, but came up empty. (I
hope I did the search right - I am coming from XP and may be unfamiliar
with any Win7 quirks to searching for files).

Any ideas on how to get rid of this?


http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache

I believe I essentially did the same thing by manually deleting the two
keys with regedit and restarting the PC.


I've used the tool that you used before and it didn't work but this one
did. Worth a shot if it is just a notification icon and not something on
the computer.


OK. It seems to have worked. Now why would the .bat file work when
manually deleting the keys from the registry did not?

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Old February 19th 14, 11:41 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

Dennis wrote:

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:39:26 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
opined:

On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:48:03 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
opined:


On 2/18/2014, Dennis posted:
OK. It seems to have worked. Now why would the .bat file work
when manually deleting the keys from the registry did not?

When doing it manually, did you kill Explorer before and

restart it after?

No. Apparently that makes a difference? Why?

Is it not obvious?

Conflict...

Reread the website that Ron pointed you to. His manual

instructions duplicate the bat file's actions.

Ron pointed me to...


http://www.7tutorials.com/how-clean-...rea-icon-cache


... but I didn't see any "manual instructions". Maybe I'm going
blind, but could you please point me to the place on the page

where you see this?

The first paragraph. The instructions are abbreviated.


Well, I still don't understand why it doesn't work the other way. You
mention a "conflict", but I didn't see that word anywhere on that web
page. I guess I'll just have to settle for it working ... without a
clear explanation of why a reboot after the regedit doesn't behave the
same way.

Thanks all for your help.


The tutorial referenced has the following line;

"a simple trick is to remove two registry values and then 'restart' the
explorer.exe process"

The implied step is to "Terminate explorer.exe" before doing the
regedit. Not as clear as it could be I'll admit.

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Old February 19th 14, 01:27 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

On 19 Feb 2014 10:41:31 GMT, "Sir_George"
opined:

The tutorial referenced has the following line;

"a simple trick is to remove two registry values and then 'restart' the
explorer.exe process"

The implied step is to "Terminate explorer.exe" before doing the
regedit. Not as clear as it could be I'll admit.


Any idea why *NOT* terminating explorer.exe first causes a problem? The
only thing I can think of is that when explorer.exe closes it rewrites
the two registry values (notification area icon cache) exactly as they
were before removing them. Am I close?

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Old February 19th 14, 05:08 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Sir_George[_5_]
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Default Can't remove McUicnt.exe from the Notification Tray

Dennis wrote:

On 19 Feb 2014 10:41:31 GMT, "Sir_George"
opined:

The tutorial referenced has the following line;

"a simple trick is to remove two registry values and then 'restart'
the explorer.exe process"

The implied step is to "Terminate explorer.exe" before doing the
regedit. Not as clear as it could be I'll admit.


Any idea why NOT terminating explorer.exe first causes a problem? The
only thing I can think of is that when explorer.exe closes it rewrites
the two registry values (notification area icon cache) exactly as they
were before removing them. Am I close?


Very simply put - depends on the registry change in question *and*
whether or not just restarting Explorer.exe (all instances) might have
the desired effect without messing too much up.

So the answer to your question depends on the registry setting. Windows
does not just access the registry at startup (of Windows) as many
settings in the registry are for things other than Windows.

HTH

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