Windows Vista Hide Taskbar Icons

[typeadam]

OK, let me see how to best phrase this...

I use Vista HP.

In my 'Taskbar' properties, I have "Hide Inactive Icons" checked, and I
want to set all my icons to "Hide."

However, I have TONS of icons there and periodicaly I install new
programs that put their own icons.

Therefore, I'd like to know if there is any registry hack that
automatically marks ALL existing and NEW icons as "Hide." This way, I
don't have to do it manually.

I do NOT want to get rid of the icons nor do I want to disable the
taskbar. I just basically want the clock, the battery icon (which "Hide"
doesn't affect anyway), and the little arrow that I can click and it
will expand to show all my hidden icons.

Please don't suggest that I do it by hand, manually, icons-by-icon b/c
I obviously know that. I'm looking for convenience here.

And, "Hide Inactive" by itself is not good b/c sometimes when a new
icons appears it can be a while before it disappears.

Anyway, is this possible w/ a registry edit of some sort?

Thank you,
AP


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[barman58]

Re: Hide Taskbar Icons


hello typeadam, and welcome to the forums,arty:

I don't believe there is a hack to set all icons to hide once, but I
agree it would save time

but if you do not want to see the battery icon you can disable this
from taskbar properties - notification area -un check the box, also
works for clock, network and sound icons


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[typeadam]

Re: Hide Taskbar Icons


hmm... OK, how about this: is it possible to change the time that an
icon is inactive before it hides?

Normally, Windows seems to take a few hours + or - to hide an icon it
deems "inactive" so if there's a way to change that time to 2 seconds or
something like that it would be just as effective as my "auto hide"
feature...


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[barman58]

Re: Hide Taskbar Icons


I don't think it's simply a time thing, if the program represented by
the icon is active in memory say polling the keyboard for it's
activation sequence then I think that is classed as active.

The Always Hide option for each icon must be held in the registry
somewhere and so it should be possible to set this programatically. It
may be possible to write a script, (using something like Powershell),
that could be run at login to do this.

all we need now is a Powershell Guru to do it


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[typeadam]

Re: Hide Taskbar Icons


Well thanks for the info. For now I'll just do it "manually."


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[Rosco P Colatrain]

Re: Hide Taskbar Icons

this freeware gives you an icon to close the whole tray at once thus hiding
the icons but since the clock is also in the tray it hides that as well

http://tray-pilot-lite.findmysoft.com/

there is a registry tweak to remove the notification area here

http://windowsitpro.com/article/art...on-area-ie-system-tray-from-the-task-bar.html

but I have not tested this on vista..

so before trying it do a system restore point and/or registry backup

tell me if it works for you



"typeadam" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:49d749e95fdb0cae5786545394984146@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> OK, let me see how to best phrase this...
>
> I use Vista HP.
>
> In my 'Taskbar' properties, I have "Hide Inactive Icons" checked, and I
> want to set all my icons to "Hide."
>
> However, I have TONS of icons there and periodicaly I install new
> programs that put their own icons.
>
> Therefore, I'd like to know if there is any registry hack that
> automatically marks ALL existing and NEW icons as "Hide." This way, I
> don't have to do it manually.
>
> I do NOT want to get rid of the icons nor do I want to disable the
> taskbar. I just basically want the clock, the battery icon (which "Hide"
> doesn't affect anyway), and the little arrow that I can click and it
> will expand to show all my hidden icons.
>
> Please don't suggest that I do it by hand, manually, icons-by-icon b/c
> I obviously know that. I'm looking for convenience here.
>
> And, "Hide Inactive" by itself is not good b/c sometimes when a new
> icons appears it can be a while before it disappears.
>
> Anyway, is this possible w/ a registry edit of some sort?
>
> Thank you,
> AP
>
>
> --
> typeadam

 

[PaulM]

Re: Hide Taskbar Icons

Try this script here:
http://www.paulsxp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=125

This script will always hide inactive Icons in the System Tray Notification
area of the Taskbar
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"typeadam" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:49d749e95fdb0cae5786545394984146@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> OK, let me see how to best phrase this...
>
> I use Vista HP.
>
> In my 'Taskbar' properties, I have "Hide Inactive Icons" checked, and I
> want to set all my icons to "Hide."
>
> However, I have TONS of icons there and periodicaly I install new
> programs that put their own icons.
>
> Therefore, I'd like to know if there is any registry hack that
> automatically marks ALL existing and NEW icons as "Hide." This way, I
> don't have to do it manually.
>
> I do NOT want to get rid of the icons nor do I want to disable the
> taskbar. I just basically want the clock, the battery icon (which "Hide"
> doesn't affect anyway), and the little arrow that I can click and it
> will expand to show all my hidden icons.
>
> Please don't suggest that I do it by hand, manually, icons-by-icon b/c
> I obviously know that. I'm looking for convenience here.
>
> And, "Hide Inactive" by itself is not good b/c sometimes when a new
> icons appears it can be a while before it disappears.
>
> Anyway, is this possible w/ a registry edit of some sort?
>
> Thank you,
> AP
>
>
> --
> typeadam

 

[Brink]

Re: Hide Taskbar Icons


typeadam;847401 Wrote:
> OK, let me see how to best phrase this...
>
> I use Vista HP.
>
> In my 'Taskbar' properties, I have "Hide Inactive Icons" checked, and I
> want to set all my icons to "Hide."
>
> However, I have TONS of icons there and periodicaly I install new
> programs that put their own icons.
>
> Therefore, I'd like to know if there is any registry hack that
> automatically marks ALL existing and NEW icons as "Hide." This way, I
> don't have to do it manually.
>
> I do NOT want to get rid of the icons nor do I want to disable the
> taskbar. I just basically want the clock, the battery icon (which "Hide"
> doesn't affect anyway), and the little arrow that I can click and it
> will expand to show all my hidden icons.
>
> Please don't suggest that I do it by hand, manually, icons-by-icon b/c
> I obviously know that. I'm looking for convenience here.
>
> And, "Hide Inactive" by itself is not good b/c sometimes when a new
> icons appears it can be a while before it disappears.
>
> Anyway, is this possible w/ a registry edit of some sort?
>
> Thank you,
> AP

Hi Adam,

This tutorial will show you how to hide all of the Notification tray
icons at once.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/138395-notification-area-hide-all-system-icons.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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