Comments on: Registry Hack: Hide All Icons in the Notification Area (System Tray)

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:47:58 +0000

Very very good ! but i wonder how can i hide normal programs. i hope someone can help me! Thanks !

By: kuralms@yahoo.com

kuralms@yahoo.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:05:40 +0000

man i just want to hide bit torrent from view but not to stop the downloads

By: Anto

Anto — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:05:40 +0000

Its in the post above (Leukoplast’s) open your eyes

By: Anto

Anto — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:04:05 +0000

Leukoplast your a star….(Thumbs up) I was searchin for that solution for a while, i dont think many people here can tell apart there arse from their toe ha….Thanks

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:36:35 +0000

Hey! Can I Hide Only One Specify Icon? Not All Icons In Task bar.Please letme know how caan i hide only one icon in Taskbar! (Volume icon,Antivirus Icon etc.)

Thanks!!

By: 55trucker

55trucker — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:39:59 +0000

Good info…but, not quite what I need (alter the *Services* info in Administrative Tools)..the program that I have running is a small installed program that runs constantly in the background but doesn’t appear in *Services*….where in the Registry would one look to remove the system tray icon entry without disrupting the program itself?

By: Sunil

Sunil — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:55:41 +0000

hi,
please help me.

I want to start blue tooth icon in the system tray among all the tray icons appears ,
ie , i want to change the sequence the icons are getting loaded in the system tray……

any 1 please help me as soon as possible and
thanks in advance,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

By: kop

kop — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:49:28 +0000

hi man

great solution.

i was searching the net hours for that solution.

need to emphasize what is solves:

You can hide a specific icon from the system tray, but let its software continue running in background.

Btw, you don’t have to restart your computer in the end.
You can just right click–> Stop
right click –> Start

and the icon will not appear anymore

By: leukoplast

leukoplast — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:50:24 +0000

Ok, this may be a slightly old article, but I had a specific problem I needed to get done. What I wanted to do was have a certain program running, but make it so the icon didn’t show up in the notifications area. Basically run it like most services on windows, silently, but hidden in the background.

So for those that want to do this for whatever reason, this is what I did.

Start > Control Panel > Administrative tools > Services *

Once in services, find the program that you want to hide the icon of. Right click on it and hit Properties. It should give you a window with access to 4 tabs. (General, Log-on, Recovery, and Dependencies)

Go ahead and click on the Log-on tab. Now un-tick the box that says “Allow service to interact with desktop” Hit apply, then restart the computer.

Now when your computer starts up, the program’s icon is no longer in the notification area. In fact, the only way to know its running is by checking the Windows task manager processes. In which it will be there, running silently in the background.

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By: dhwey

dhwey — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:44:06 +0000

I still cant hide my notification area…. why..?

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:44:37 +0000

yes it does stop it. We do automated updates ourselves but NOT using windows after patches are tested. So we turn off the windows service and deploy using another tool. That way users cannot prematurely deploy just because Bill Gates tells them to.

Best way to hide it = make it not there .

Sorry if it doesn’t help your scenario.

Brian

By: mj

mj — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:23:06 +0000

Thanks
to: Sadeghi
I want to hide an icon in notification area just like hide all icons. not in recent document.

to: Brian
I only want to hide it. It should be enabled
I think your trick, stop the program

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:39:59 +0000

If the specific icons in the tray you wish to remove are due to services being run, you can use “net stop” to stop it and “sc config” to disable them. Thats what I did to stop autoupdates and the security center as follows:

net stop “Automatic Updates”
sc config “wuauserv” start= disabled

net stop “Security Center”
sc config “wscsvc” start= disabled

Good luck!

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:27:02 +0000

If you just want to hide an icon, check out my post: Windows Tip: Remove The My Recent Documents Icon From The Start Menu

By: mj

mj — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:18:05 +0000

hi
great
But, how I can hide a special icon in system try

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:05:30 +0000

Hey there,
That hack above looks almost like what I would need but it kill all the sys tray icons.

I need a registry or command line hack to remove ONLY the notifications titled “keep your computer up to date” (yellow chevron) and another for the “Windows Security Alerts” (red chevron).

Here the solution requirements:
1) I cannot do this via GUI. I can only do it by command line or registry hack. (am using a scripting utility).
2) can do it with a bat file but not a vbs script

Any ideas?

Brian

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:15:22 +0000

It’s true that editing the Registry can be dangerous, but if you concerned about security, it’s the more secure way.

By: Haris

Haris — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:33:11 +0000

Nice tip, but I prefer the other way from Taskbar Properties.There are more chances of messing up with the registries. So it’s always better to use the safe way
LOL, you keep your notification area clean, but I like to display everything. I want everything in front (laziness :p), don’t want to press that arrow (Show Hidden Icons).

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By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:36:14 +0000

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