how do i hide icons from the system tray. (ie: zone alarm icon, dns2go incon)

thanks

What Os are you running ???

If it's XP right click on the taskbar and select properties, then check hide inactive icons, and if you want to adjust what ones show and what one don't click customize beside the hide inactive and choose from there which ones to hide and which ones to show.



Last edited by Leech at Jul 28 2002, 02:54 AM

i'm running xp

but i guess i'm trying to say that i want to remove the icon from the system tray and not just hide it

for example, ser-u is running in the background and there is no icon in the systray.

i have other programs running in the background but they also show their systray icons, how do i remove the systray icons and still have the program running in the back ground

thanks

Depending on what prog it is you should be able to go to options on the prog itself and see the option there.

try MSConfig. for that go to Start > Run and type "msconfig" (without quotation marks) and see the programs u wanna disable. :) good luck!

There might be different workarounds here... Never really thought about this one. Basically it's up to the programmer to place an icon in the systray or not (cooperating with the XP functions). Then one generally see that services do not show up in the systray. So (if there is no option in the application) you might give it a try and run the app as a service, just to see what that happens. Then you mention the firewall as an example of icon you don't want to reside in tthe systray. I don't run zon-alarm but chanses are that it allready runs as a service and if so this method will give you nothing.

@McoreD: I don't get you here really, if gowani want's to have the application running in the background, what should he do in msconfig to hide it from the systray? Have I missed something there... I better have a look...

oops, i lost that. i thought he needs to disable the tasks. well the problem is to hide... nah wrong word according to gowani...to remove the icon from the task bar, but keeping the program running in the background. mmm, that's easy in XP as Leech and u says. it is not a responsibilty of XP to remove/keep the taskbar icon of a program. the program itself should have an option to remove the icon from the taskbar. but then, the background operation also ends! gowani needs to run the task in background as well :o mmm, then, he needs to hide the icon. i think he can't remove the icon. he has to customize the taskbar and choose 'always hide'. :)

Here is another thing for you gowani:

In an old topic about the systray icons sometimes get lost (which might happen if you run explorer as shell (most people do) and explorer goes down you won't get all the systray icons back) found at (nowhere, it seems as the search function doesn't work).
Lol - that part really looks ugly.

Here. Mike Lin has written a thing called Traysaver. I really recommend using it as it saves all your tray icons in case explorer goes down. There is an option in TraySaver to hide all the icons, or you can hide them individually. I run XP together with Traysaver Beta 10, flawlessly.

So, take a walk to _www.mlin.net and find TraySaver along with some other very usefull utils.

Hope this helps

hey .unicorn, u reminded me of a tricky suggestion ;)
if gowani wants to keep the tray icons vanished from the taskbar but also needs to run them....then he could close the explorer.exe by using task manager :)
and then the systray icons get vanished but still keeps running in the background. :)
how is that? will it work?

No it wont work.
If you close the shell (explorer) the OS notice that and restarts it. (Some of the systray icons will get lost, some will be restored).
You are supposed to run a shell (a graphic environment) unless you prefer safe mode with command window only. Of course there a re a lot of shells out there...
I still suggest gowani to try TraySaver.