The first place to look for programs to nix is the system tray, the row of tiny icons next to Windows' clock in the bottom-right of the Taskbar.

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If we remember that brands are belief systems (created by a system of belief that includes creation story, creed, icons, rituals, a special lexicon, nonbelievers, and leader), then we realize why the Super Bowl has become a brand with a community of millions who surround the biggest event in American sports history.

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Although Linux-based, the XO-1's operating system appears to have been very much simplified, with menu bars and icons being kept to a bare minimum.

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In the fall of that year, 1982, the company demonstrated a revolutionary-looking operating system (to be precise, it was an overlay to Microsofts original operating system, DOS) called VisiOn, which used a mouse and sported nifty little graphics called icons.

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