I noticed that task manager option to show icons kept including a program that I had uninstalled.
I found and deleted all remnants of the application in the registry and it still showed up.
I downloaded a bat file that indicated it would clean the icon notification cache by editing the registry and it worked.
This is what the file contained
@echo off
:: Notification Area Cleaner
:: Created by Hally Master hally_master (at) yahoo (dot) com
:: Distributed by www.7tutorials.com
:: WARNING! This utility restarts your shell (Explorer.exe) and clears your notification area icon cache
taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
reg delete “HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify” /v IconStreams /f
reg delete “HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify” /v PastIconsStream /f
start “Shell Restarter” /d “%systemroot%” /i /normal explorer.exe
This seems like something that ccleaner should catch.