Friday, February 29, 2008

Hide System Tray Icons Completely

Windows System Tray is to give the user faster access to the program’s options. While this option is quite useful for some applications but it does look kinda ugly especially if a lot of icons are visible in the system tray.

If you wish to have a beautiful appearance of Windows Explorer, you can hide all system tray icons. The programs will still be running in the background but only that the icons would not be visible anymore.


1. Go to regedit.
2. Navigate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. Create "NoTrayItemsDisplay" using DWORD entry
4. 0 Disable and 1 Enable. For your case, enter 1 to enable it.
5. Log off!

The screenshot below is before and after apply the registry entry.




Enjoy!

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