Some applications that are running in the background are displaying an icon in the Windows System Tray to give the user faster access to the program’s options. While this option is useful for some applications it does look kinda ugly especially if a lot of icons are visible in the system tray.
If you like a more beautiful appearance of Windows you could hide all system tray icons. The programs would still be running in the background but the icons would not be visible anymore. It’s possible to hide the icons using a Registry setting. Press Windows R, type regedit and hit enter.
Now navigate to the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \Explorer and check if the DWORD entry NoTrayItemsDisplay is already available in the left pane. If it is not create a new DWORD with that name. Now double-click the entry and change the value to 1.
The left image is a picture of my system tray and the left one a picture of it after applying the Registry setting. Note that you have to log off or restart the computer before you can see the change. Found at the How to Geek.
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I don’t think it is a good idea though.
It’s probably appealing to users who bought a MacBook Air :)
I for one do not like it as well but I figured some users could find it useful. I sometimes run applications there that I need to configure with a right-click and that would be impossible with that Registry trick.
Another problem that I was facing is that I can’t recover applications that minimize in the System Tray because I can’t access them there unless someone knows a way to bring such a process back as a window.
Stupid idea! What would make more sense is just to HIDE the taskbar. Right-click the task bar, select Properties. Check on “Auto-hide the task bar”. It’s funny how many people I run into who don’t like to auto-hide the task bar. They get totally lost if they can’t see it.
Also, IMO, the bottom of the screen is s dumb place for the task bar. I’ve always put it on the right side of the screen and I always auto-hide it. It takes no screen space but when I need it, I just bump against the right edge and it pops up. I can make it as big as I want.
My logic for placing the bar on the right side of the screen is that Western world people think in terms of right/left. I find it more natural and comfortable to move the cursor right/left than up/down.
hey this is quite use ful to hide all the programs that is to be used in stealth mode.
eg–keyloggers.etc
how do i undo this. i need to access programs that minimize to the tray and i cant access them now
this aint working with vista x86