How can I hide system tray

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zuhair said:
how can I hide system tray in win 2000 professional
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Hide the taskbar - grab the top edge with your mouse and drag it to the edge of
the screen, or choose Start -> Settings -> Taskbar and Start Menu -> Auto hide
 
thanks for your input but
thats not really hiding. If you take your mouse there, it
comes back up. I want to restrict users to system tray,
and not the whole task bar.
 
zuhair said:
thanks for your input but
thats not really hiding. If you take your mouse there, it
comes back up. I want to restrict users to system tray,
and not the whole task bar.
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Well, that sounds like the most pointless thing in the world.
Do you want to stop them clock-watching or something?
 
I don't think you can restrict access to system tray only. You can turn off
whole active desktop, but then you propably loose taskbar also.
 
how can I hide system tray in win 2000 professional
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In XP it is possible to set a single reg key to disable systray.
In w2k I'm doing it the hard way: Check all entries in
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
for items placing themselfes in the system tray and deleting all of
them.
Set
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\SysTray
to 0

Hth
Ciao, Walter
 
There is a way to do this, however will require some programming (most
easiest in C) which i'll briefly explain.

Eveything on the 'Desktop' is a window - that said, the 'Desktop' is a
window in itself, a parent window. Everything else is a child window, this
includes any applications as well as the taskbar etc.

The Systray is a child window too, and using Microsoft API calls to
manipulate windows can allow you to disable it, or completely remove it.

This won't make much sense to a non-developer, however do a search of MSDN
or Google for code to enable or disable windows and you should see what I
mean and how to do it. A little cut a paste of code maybe just what you
want.

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Regards

J.

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