May 20
After using your computer for some time, you may find that there are a lot of icons building up in your system tray. With Windows Vista, you can hide these icons to remove clutter. This guide will show you how to do this.
Before
After
1. Right click the space next to the clock and select properties.
2. In Taskbar and Start Menu Properties, select the Notification Area tab and then select customize.
3. Now select the icons you want to hide and choose hide.
4. Press OK on both windows you just opened and you are done.
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14 Responses to Remove Icons from the System Tray in Windows Vista
Init
These icons drive me CRAZY - now I know how to get rid of them!
Andrew B
Very useful tip.. much appreciated
S J T
Nice
Falcon4
You can do exactly the same thing in XP, so don’t pass this off as a “look what you can do in Vista!” thing…
Clock: Taskbar properties (Taskbar tab, “Show the clock”)
Network: Properties for network connections - “Show icon in notification area when connected” for connected connections, or just “disable” the others, not aware of a complete removal workaround otherwise)
Volume: Sound control panel, “Show volume control on taskbar” (IIRC)
Power: Power control panel, Advanced tab.
As for all the other icons, well, that’s in the same place, and does the same thing. At least there’s something in Vista that didn’t change unnecessarily…
caroline
Does anyone know how I can tell if my slow broadband connection is down to my pc or my broadband provider (Tiscali)? I ran a speed test here http://www.broadband-expert.co.uk/broadband/speedtest/ and it tells me I have a download speed of 2.06Mbs and an upload speed of 243 Kbps. My laptop a dell Inspiron 8600, is about 3-4 years old some and I have Windows and is running Windows 2000.
Any or advice help would be greatly appreciated!
Rich
Caroline… those are average speeds and nothing to worry about. Most providers allow a small upload speed because most of the time you are just sending requests for webpages, small amounts of information from forms, e-mails etc.
Ian
Thank you Google! This is exactly what I want
Mark
Hi how can I delete items from my taskbar. As when Pc starts up there is a load of rubbish on there that come with Pc and it really slows it down?
Thanks
Rich
Mark, a good program to remove startup items is Advanced Windows Care
This will identify all programs that start with your computer and let you deselect programs you don’t want to start.
Mark
Thank you Rich
Satyajit
This works ok, well, most of the time. Vista is ‘forgetful’ about the hiding settings, and sometimes it chooses to display an icon or chooses to hide it even though a setting has been explicitly set for it.
Atleast that’s what happens with the ‘Task Manager’ and ‘Safely remove hardware’ icons.
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