How to Hide System Tray Icons in Vista

If you like the clean desktop look you’re probably wondering how to hide or get rid of those pesky system tray icons next to your clock that just about every program you install wants to add there. So here’s how to do it.

Here’s how mine looked before:

Ready to clean that mess up.

1. Right click in the task bar and choose Properties.

2. From within the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties page choose the Notification Area then select Customize:

3. Now click on the icon you want to hide and in the drop down box beside it choose Hide. Do this for all the icons you want to hide and click Ok twice and you’re finished.

Here’s how it looks now.

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