Windows 7 Taskbar Question

On the lower right side of the taskbar where the little icons are, there is a upward pointing triangle. If i click "Customize", i get to see the tiny icons of programs I once had, but uninstalled as well. How do I exile the tiny icons of uninstalled programs. The fact they stay there bothers me even after properly uninstalling.

Addenda: For example, I uninstalled HDTune and Everest from my laptop, but since they had little taskbar icons in the lower right, they stay there even after I uninstalled them. Is there something in the registry that I can use to manually eradicate them. It bothers me they stayed there.

Jason

 

do you run something like "Advanced System Care"....free version cleans up the registry pretty good, better than CCleaner.

 

As strange as this sounds, I managed to fix it by simply going into task manager, ending the process tree "explorer.exe" and then restarting it. Then restarting the computer for good measure.

Thanks Zoid for helping, rep to you for giving a great answer

 

Interesting. I always thought those icons were stored in the Registry.

But if it works, don't fix it.