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    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by racein, Dec 14, 2008.

  1. racein

    racein Notebook Geek

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    I have vista business, on the bottom center of screen, is that little square with about 5 icons in it, I don't want to remove programs just that little squre of icons, any ideas, thx


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    Right click on the toolbar ,go to toolbars and uncheck unwanted


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    racein Notebook Geek

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    sorry but the icons is not listed there, tried that, any other ideas, thx
     
    racein, Dec 14, 2008
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    ILoveMoogles Notebook Evangelist

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    It sounds like you own an SR? Is that right?

    If so, you can just uninstall the Vaio Switch Mode. It's supposed to correspond with the buttons at the top of your keyboard if you do have an SR.

    (I don't know personally how to remove it, as I do use it. I think other members have though. They might chime in and let you know how to do it.)
     
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    Primes Notebook Deity

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    you can uninstall the app from the control panel > programs.
    or if you just want to disable that program, you can do that in msconfig:
    start > run > msconfig > startup > uncheck vaio mode.
     
    Primes, Dec 14, 2008
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    Thx for your input, but it isn't the mode switch. its on the screen five icons all grouped together, explorer, window media player, window photo gallery, web cam, and click to disk. Now you can move the group around the screen as a group, but I just want to get it off my screen, but not disable the programs, thx

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  7. ILoveMoogles

    ILoveMoogles Notebook Evangelist

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    No, that's Vaio Mode Switch. If you check your Taskmanager, you'll see VMSwitch.exe running if this is it.

    You see, if you click on them, it'll launch the programs.

    However, removing this particular program will not remove the programs from your laptop. They will still be in the programs menu area in the Start Menu or in other shortcut menus, such as the taskbar.
     
    ILoveMoogles, Dec 14, 2008
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    Thx, that did it, it was just bugging me sitting there. and yes it is a sr290, just came the other day, smaller than I am use to but am getting use to it, thx and happy holidays
     
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  9. ILoveMoogles

    ILoveMoogles Notebook Evangelist

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    oh, Actually, if you press on the setting button when you restart and log in to your laptop (VMSwitch.exe will launch again next restart), you can change it to hide automatically after 5 seconds I believe.

    It's Below Display Settings it says:
    Always Display in Foreground
    Hide Button Icons after a fixed Period of time
    Change Wallpaper when mode changes
    (They are checkboxes, similar to those on webpages)

    You can uncheck Always Display in Foreground, and check Hide Button Icons after a fixed period of time, and it'll disappear, but if you hit the buttons at the top, it will launch whatever programs they are assigned to.
     
    ILoveMoogles, Dec 14, 2008
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