System Tray: Where is "Always Hide" hidden in the registry?

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Swifty

Does anyone know where the choices "Always Hide", "Always Show" and
"Hide when inactive" are kept for System Tray icons? (Presumably
somewhere in the registry).

The current version of the BBC News Ticker has the annoying habit of
getting itself set to "Always Show" after every restart of my XP system.

Since I launch most programs from a script, rather than through the
Startup Folder, I can add some code to reset it to "Always Hide", once I
can find where the setting is.

I could probably find the setting myself, given time, but if anyone
already knows, it would save me some time... thanks!
 
Hi Swifty,

I really like your attitude, the way you ask for help

Right click on start menu->properties->taskbar tab->customize


do let me know

Muzafar
 
Right click on start menu->properties->taskbar tab->customize

Yes, but I've done that about a thousand times since installing the new
version of the BBC ticker, it just keeps coming back as "Always Show"
after I restart Windows.

I've finally resorted to the "Well, just don't start it in the first
place" option. It remains to be seen if that works after a reboot.
 
Hi Swifty,

Try the following line no. 53

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

OR try the following

Click on Start button.

In Windows XP, click Run and then type regedit and hit ENTER. In Windows
Vista, type regedit into Start Search and hit ENTER.
Navigate to the following registry key in Registry Editor:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

()Right click on Explorer, and then select New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value
(DWORD Value in Windows XP). Type NoTrayItemsDisplay as its value name.
Skip this step is NoTrayItemsDisplay registry entry is already available.
Note that is NoTrayItemsDisplay, and not NoTrayItemDisplay.

Double click on NoTrayItemsDisplay, and set the value data to 1.



Log off and log on again or restart computer to make the change effective



muzafar
 
This is your answer (however, the data is binary) :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify]


ju.c
 
ju.c said:
This is your answer (however, the data is binary) :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify]
Click to expand...

Thanks (and Tip 53 at Kellys Corner was a VBS pointing in the same
place). It may take me some time to figure out that data, even though
some of it is quite readable.
 
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