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

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'.
