Comments on: How to Hide System Tray Icons in Vista http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/11/15/how-to-hide-system-tray-icons-in-vista/ Helping you get the most out of Vista Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:24:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Lyndsey Birchall http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/11/15/how-to-hide-system-tray-icons-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-8041 Lyndsey Birchall Mon, 02 May 2011 12:42:08 +0000 http://www.vistarevisited.com/?p=1880#comment-8041 Wow that was strange. I just wrote an really long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn't appear. Grrrr... well I'm not writing all that over again. Anyways, just wanted to say excellent blog! Wow that was strange. I just wrote an really long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyways, just wanted to say excellent blog!

]]> By: Raja Lalith http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/11/15/how-to-hide-system-tray-icons-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-7952 Raja Lalith Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:35:11 +0000 http://www.vistarevisited.com/?p=1880#comment-7952 @Kevin I think what you said will hide all the icons but i would like hide icon of a particular application completely.. How can you that? Thks in advance @Kevin
I think what you said will hide all the icons but i would like hide icon of a particular application completely..

How can you that?

Thks in advance

]]> By: Kevin http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/11/15/how-to-hide-system-tray-icons-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-7908 Kevin Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:25:11 +0000 http://www.vistarevisited.com/?p=1880#comment-7908 @ dhana, You will need to edit the Registry to make this change. If you're not confortable editing the Registry you may want to not make this change. 1. Create a Restore Point. 2. Go to start And type in the Windows Vista Search box regedit and press enter. 3. Approve the UAC Now that you have your registry editor opened find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer 4. Now right click in the window on the right. 5. Click on new DWORD (32-bit) Value. 6. Name the new Key NoTrayItemsDisplay 7. Now double click on the key and assign a value of 1 to the key. Now you’re finished, Reboot your system your system tray should be Icon free. @ dhana,
You will need to edit the Registry to make this change. If you’re not confortable editing the Registry you may want to not make this change.

1. Create a Restore Point.
2. Go to start And type in the Windows Vista Search box regedit and press enter.
3. Approve the UAC

Now that you have your registry editor opened find the key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

4. Now right click in the window on the right.
5. Click on new DWORD (32-bit) Value.
6. Name the new Key NoTrayItemsDisplay
7. Now double click on the key and assign a value of 1 to the key.

Now you’re finished, Reboot your system your system tray should be Icon free.

]]> By: dhana http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/11/15/how-to-hide-system-tray-icons-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-7904 dhana Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:20:07 +0000 http://www.vistarevisited.com/?p=1880#comment-7904 This method works fine, but when i click the arrow, all active icons display. How can i hide icons when application is active, even i click the arrow? This method works fine, but when i click the arrow, all active icons display. How can i hide icons when application is active, even i click the arrow?

]]> By: krisvek http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/11/15/how-to-hide-system-tray-icons-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-7895 krisvek Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:43:25 +0000 http://www.vistarevisited.com/?p=1880#comment-7895 This only hides what becomes a problem for many people. Those icons in the system tray represent a program that is running, a program that few really ever need running in most cases. I would say it is far better to disable the auto-run of the program that you don't need than to simply hide it. CCleaner works very well for this, but you can use the msconfig method as well, just be careful not to disable anything important. That said, yes, sometimes it is also nice to hide the icons for programs that you DO want/need running in the background, and this is an easy, built-in way to do so. This only hides what becomes a problem for many people. Those icons in the system tray represent a program that is running, a program that few really ever need running in most cases. I would say it is far better to disable the auto-run of the program that you don’t need than to simply hide it. CCleaner works very well for this, but you can use the msconfig method as well, just be careful not to disable anything important.

That said, yes, sometimes it is also nice to hide the icons for programs that you DO want/need running in the background, and this is an easy, built-in way to do so.

]]> By: ben http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/11/15/how-to-hide-system-tray-icons-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-7470 ben Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:05:25 +0000 http://www.vistarevisited.com/?p=1880#comment-7470 omg thx so much i was looking evrywere for this thx omg thx so much i was looking evrywere for this thx

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