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...
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