Comments on: How to hide system tray icons in Windows XP

By: Joao

Joao — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:42:24 +0000

This is perfect to hide icons in the system tray.

Now, I’m looking for a way to hide a program icon on the task bar. For instance: Winamp has an option to not show it on the task bar, but Windows Media Player hasn’t. How can I hide WMP’s icon?

By: Scendera

Scendera — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:27:10 +0000

I’ve got the opposite issue. I’d like to leave the Everest temp readouts for both of my hard drives showing at all times, but it wants to reset one of them to “Hide when Inactive” constantly.

Any ideas?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:46:06 +0000

Here is the answer to your question. Go to the registry editor and create the following dword key under the path given. This will hide all tray icons for the current user. Hope this helps.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
“NoTrayItemsDisplay”=dword:00000001

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:45:31 +0000

Please give us a solution to the original question,

“How to HIDE system tray icons in Windows XP”.

The solution provided here only answers the following question:

“How to TEMPORARILY hide system tray icons in Windows XP”.

By: bambi

bambi — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:11:14 +0000

yep it hides them beneath the arrow…….. i want to get the icon out of the tray altother…… it amuses me that there seems to be no way to do this except to download some sort of program

but i am the one who uses window, so i can only blame myself.

mayb i should try linux….

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:57:40 +0000

Apparently no one here can answer this, so it’s time to
move on to a site that can….

By: mathew

mathew — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:16:22 +0000

this will only hide the icon..if we click the arrow all the hidden icons will appear.how can we remove the icon from the tray?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:17:57 +0000

The original question “How to hide system tray icons in Windows XP” has not been answered.

The question “How to TEMPORARILY hide system tray icons in Windows XP” has.

I appreciate the time and effort of others in their explanations and answers, but am a bit disappointed in not addressing the original question.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:10:51 +0000

Apparently no one here can answer this, so it’s time to
move on to a site that can….

By: rino_446

rino_446 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:47:24 +0000

I have a system tray icon for a programe and i want to always hide it and i do that from properties and choose always hide, but after each reboot it reappear again what can i do plz ???

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:40:25 +0000

This is a temporary fix valid only for the current windows session. The icons revert to being shown again every time you log off and log back on. So, in short, this DOES NOT WORK. Please give us a solution to the original question,
“How to hide system tray icons in Windows XP”.

The solution provided here only answers the following question:
“How to TEMPORARILY hide system tray icons in Windows XP”.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:36:15 +0000

Explanation was very nice and presented in such a manner that even someone like me can understand. Thanks

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:45:55 +0000

As somebody mentioned above, some icons that are set to “Always Hide” or “Always Show” revert to “Hide When Inactive” after a reboot. I read on one forum that certain “vital system procedures” would always be visible no matter how you set them. Well I don’t consider things like my ATI video display settings to be a “vital system procedure”. I’ve set the icon to Always Hide a hundred times but after every reboot, there it is in my tray! If anyone knows how to fix this bug can they let us know? (For reference, I found the registry setting… but the binary code means nothing without knowing which icon is represented)

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:13:01 +0000

Although this works as described, unfortunately you will get that little arrow that indicates to the user that there are icons hidden. And a pop up will tell you that you have hidden icons, just in case you didn’t notice the arrow. And the icon(s) you hid, will still be visible and available to the user. This is all right for home users but not appropriate in a corporate environment or if you really want the icon to be gone off the system tray for good. Just FYI.

By: Adee

Adee — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:10:42 +0000

Hi.. Works in windows XP. But after I set Always Hide to some of the icons, it reverted to original setting when I restart windows.