How can I permanently delete an icon from the notification area?

Whenever I start an icon composed of the white black '9' in a field number appears in the Notification area of my desktop tool bar.

Whenever I start, I have 'customize' on the toolbar and "hide" icon.  It always comes back.

Apparently, it has no function.  Make a right click on it, in the hope of finding an option 'discard', produces no response.

How can I delete the icon?

My OS is Windows Vista 64 bit Home Premium edition.


Hello
Steps to remove unused items from the notification area:

1. click on start-> run and then type regedit in the box that appears, and then click ok

2. from the tree of directories in the registry editor, navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify

3 remove flow and PasteIconStreams icon in the list

4. exit the registry editor, restart your computer and the items in the notification area should now be gone.

Disclaimer clause.

Change the settings of the REGISTRY can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the REGISTRY settings configuration can be solved. Changes to these settings are at your own risk.

Remove icons from the notification area (system tray)

http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/76c95893-0265-47F9-9ff8-47e1d64248e91033.mspx

I also suggest you to run a full scan on your computer.

1. Windows Live One care - http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/3/default.htm

2. how to get rid of malicious software

http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistasecurity/thread/ba80504b-61f1-4D71-960f-b561798b7b42

Kind regards

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