How to cleverly hide the WinXP taskbar icon

  
                

WinXP's taskbar icon brings us convenience to a certain extent, but some friends like to open the desktop icon directly, do not like to use the small icon on the taskbar, then how to make it change? Two tips to quickly hide the taskbar icon. Recommended: GHOST XP SP3 Pure Edition

Tip 1. Use Group Policy to hide the taskbar icon.

Enter “GPEDIT.MSC” in the "Start → Run"; Open Group Policy, then select “User Configuration & Rarr; Administrative Templates & Rarr; Taskbar and Start Menu → Hide Notification Area ”, change the configuration to “Enabled”, and finally restart to hide the taskbar icon. If there is still a clock icon left on the taskbar, then select “Delete clock from system notification area", and start it.

This hides the notification area from the group policy to hide the taskbar icon.

Skills II, modify the registry to show and hide the taskbar icon.

Open the registry editor, select the path: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer, and then adjust the NoTrayItemsDisplay key value, 0 is the display, 1 is hidden.

Both simple and practical method that allows you to quickly hide the taskbar icon WinXP, if you do not like using the manual method, you can also use the software to make the taskbar icon not change, like the 360 ​​security Guardian, you can solve the problem automatically in the manual service.

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