Hiding Notification Area

The Notification area shows the softwares which are working in background without user interface.
This area shows the notifications from different softwares, used to show the status of that software.
While using Messengers, when we close them, they minimize to the notification area. When the notification area is disabled, we can get back the closed messenger by opening it from the usual location, such as from desktop shortcut, but not from the notification area

Hiding Notification area is Not Recommended. This trick is only for a informational purpose, no responsibility will be paid to the user from the provider.

Steps:

1. Open Registry Editor. ( Start > Run > regedit )
2. Get to this key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

3. In the right pane look for NoTrayItemsDisplay.Double click open that entry and change the value to 1 (one).


Downloadable files:
1. Hide Notification Area (.reg file)
2. Show Notification Area (undo above) (.reg file)
3. VBS File to automate the process (.rar file, extract to get .vbs file)

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