How To Disable System Tray On Windows

How To Disable System Tray On Windows

System Tray is a special feature on Windows System. It can be found at the bottom right corner of the windows. System Tray has few icons of programs which are running in background. Many times, these icons also allow users to change few settings of that program. But very less people use it. If you are one of those persons who want to remove it from system, a simple registry tweak can help you.

This tweak will work on all version of windows including Windows XP, Windows vista and Windows 7. 

Open regedit.exe in your system and follow the following path.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Here create a new 32-bit DWORD value in the right side with the value

Name: NoTrayItemsDisplay

Value: 1

Now restart your system to see the effect.

If you want to get your system try back, you can either remove this registry key or change its value to 0.

Note: By removing System try, you are only hiding system tray. All system try apps will continue run in the background. If you do not need any application running in the system  try, you can disble manually