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How to disable the System Tray on Windows 7 or Vista or XP

Many people have used to the system tray on Windows, but there are some people never uses it. Here is a way to disable the system tray completely.

Note: it work in all versions of Windows.

You can even remove the clock if you'd like, by right-clicking on the taskbar and choosing Properties. It's on the Notification Area tab.

You could also use this in reverse if your system tray is disabled and you don't know why, you should check this registry key.

Manual Registry Hack

Open up regedit.exe through the Start Menu search or run box, and then navigate down to the following key (Create if it doesn't exist):

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer

Create a new 32-bit DWORD value in the right hand pane with these values:

Name: NoTrayItemsDisplay

Value: 1

You will have to logoff and back on for this to take effect. To remove the hack, just delete the key, or change the value to 0.

Note that disabling the system tray doesn't actually prevent system tray apps from running, it just hides them. You should still disable any applications that aren't needed.

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Update: Note that the same registry key may exist in more than one location, so if you are trying to reverse this hack, you should search the registry for NoTrayItemsDisplay.




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