XP: How To Hide All System Tray Icons
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Windows networking A situation may arise that requires you to hide the system tray icons from the user, to do this:
This registry hack will hide all icons in the system tray.
Open up Notepad and copy the following:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoTrayItemsDisplay"=dword:00000001
Save the text file and rename it to for example “XP_HideTrayIcons.reg”. Then merge it into the registry by double clicking it. Logoff (or end the explorer.exe process and restart it) and the user’s tray icons will be hidden. To undo this, simply change the value to zero.
loppy said on December 14, 2008
merci
arjun said on February 24, 2009
hi how to change the value to zero…………..!
Jack said on March 19, 2009
This didnt work for me.
LookBangladesh.Com said on September 19, 2009
actualy i want to hide selected icon if possible plz know to me..
Dave B said on October 2, 2009
This sounded good, but I tried it on my laptop w/XP home, and it would not import into the registry either from within the registry or by double-clicking on it as the author instructed! What’s wrong??
Jeroen said on October 27, 2009
Copy all between lines to a text file
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer]
“NoTrayItemsDisplay”=dword:00000001
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Anonymous said on January 6, 2010
what if i want to hide some tray icons not all of them what to do ..!
satyadev said on March 27, 2010
awesome ..i have been waiting for it for years
mark_wiki_pc said on June 22, 2010
you have to save it as a .reg
Ex.
hidesystemtray.reg
hope this helps.
Irka_ska said on July 23, 2010
How to restore it back?
DreamsLover said on October 21, 2010
thanks you r help me so much thanks again
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Ssss said on February 3, 2011
what about the registry version 5.1..their is no such file
SS said on July 12, 2011
How many of us asked for hiding just one icon and noone answered. If it is not possibile, it would be honest to say ,, no, it is not possibile”, and not just keep silence and pretend not hearing the question. Everyone knows that there are at least a few ways to hide all icons, but noone explained how to hide selected icon. Of course, there is the way to hide one single icon by some programs as PS Tray factoru, but they aren’t free.
Naveenkumar said on July 16, 2011
use icon hider software.