How to remove the System Tray?

Windows Vista and previous versions of Windows have a system tray which allows you to access programs with ease. The tray is placed at the bottom right of the screen. If you want to remove or hide it for some reason, you cannot eliminate or hide it using any normal Windows function. But, here is how, you can do it with a simple registry hack.

Click ‘Start’ and type ‘regedit’.
Go to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER|Software|Microsoft|Windows|Current Version|Policies|Explorer’.
Right-click on the left pane and ‘New|DWORD (32-bit) Value’.


Type ‘NoTrayItemsDisplay’, double-click it and enter the value ‘1’.
Close the registry editor and reboot.

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