Friday, July 30, 2010

Hide Icons in Sytem Tray


Sometimes, icons in sytray is so annoying. so that, I deleting the icons.. well.. not delete, just hide,.. and seek :p. PCOPtimizzer - July 30, 2010

Here are the steps to set the icons in sytem tray to be hidden. Actually, this is not so important. But sometime the icon looks like so faze. It doesn't affect to the system performance.
First, open registry editor from start menu by clicking windows button > run > and than type 'regedit' in run windows.
affter that, find this string in registry editor by expolring:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

In 'Explorer' key, create a new DWord value and name it as NoTrayItemsDisplay. As you can see in the image bellow.
(click on the image to enlarge)
for value data in, set as 1. To deactivate the string, just set the valua data as 0.
Close registry editor and restart or log off the system to take the effect.