Thursday, July 21, 2011

How to hide your system task bar tray icons...

Hi friends,

Today in this post I'll teach you how to hide task bar tray icons on your desktop.
To do this you must edit system registry.

STEP 1: Open run program by pressing (windows + r) or click start then click on run.





















STEP 2: Now type "regedit" (without quotes) and press "OK".

















 STEP 3: You can see registry editor dialog box.


















 STEP 4: Now expand  1. "HKEY_CURRENT_USER"
                                    2. "Software"
                                    3. "Microsoft"
                                    4. "Windows"
                                    5. "CurrentVersion"
                                    6. "Policies" 
                                    7. "Explorer" 


 















STEP 5: Now right click on free space and click on "NEW".
             You will see few options.
             Click on "Binary value".




















           After clicking on "Binary value" a new binary register is created.










 STEP 6: Rename the newly created register as  "NoTrayItemsDisplay" ( without quotes).







          Now double click on it and add "01" and press enter.





















STEP 7: All registry editing is finished.
             To see the changes open taskmanager by pressing "ALT+CTRL+DEL", 
             click on "Processes" then right click on "explorer.exe" and press "end process".
             Your task bar will disappear.


















           To get back your taskbar, click "File"-> "New Task (Run...)" on task manager and enter "explorer.exe" and press "OK".



















Now you will see your task bar and also all the tray icons hidden.


                                            To make all tray icons unhidden,
  Open registry editor by typing "regedit" on run program,
  double click on "NoTrayItemsDisplay" and change the value "01" to "00".
  That's it.... Now you can see all your tray icons.


















 Hope you enjoyed this new trick.. 

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