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Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 3:56 am ET
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Hide Your System Tray in Vista

There are days when I don’t want to see the System Tray in Vista especially when a lot of applications have littered on it. You can hide the system tray in the Vista Registry through the following steps:

1. Click on Start Orb
2. Type Regedit.exe on the search box
3. Go to the path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
4. Create a new 32-bit DWORD value in the right hand pane with the following values:

Name: NoTrayItemsDisplay
Value: 1
5. Log-off from Windows Vista
6. Log-in again

Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 3:56 am ET
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4 Comments

  1. Jack

    Will this affect all users?

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  2. JUANJO

    Jack, sience the registry used is HKEY_CURRENT_USER, only should affect the current usser

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  3. Aerick

    now how would you put it back on if you were ready to use it agian

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  4. Ahsan

    u have to simply delete that register that u have made

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