Automatically Hide Inactive Tray Icons (Windows XP)

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Automatically Hide Inactive Tray Icons (Windows XP)
Category: Home > Windows > Start Menu and Taskbar > Taskbar

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This setting controls whether running tray programs should be hidden automatically when they are not active.

Open your registry and find the key below.

Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value called 'EnableAutoTray' using the settings below.

Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.


(Default)	REG_SZ	(value not set)
EnableAutoTray	REG_DWORD	0x00000001 (1)


	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Settings:

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
Name: EnableAutoTray
Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value: (0 = display inactive icons, 1 = hide inactive icons)

Disclaimer: Modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. We cannot guarantee that problems resulting from modifications to the registry can be solved. Use the information provided at your own risk.

Last Modified: May 14, 2002

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