Re: Permanently hiding icons in taskbar

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The date and time was Friday, February 13, 2009 7:33:15 AM, and on a whim, Ken Blake, MVP pounded out on the keyboard:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:42:17 -0800, "Terry R." <F1Com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The date and time was Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:14:41 PM, and on a whim, Ken Blake, MVP pounded out on the keyboard:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:19:33 -0800, "Terry R." <F1Com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The date and time was Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:01:55 PM, and on a whim, TEK pounded out on the keyboard:

Hello!
I have installed some programs on the computer of my kids and I dont want them to fiddle with their icons which are found near the time...they are closing the programs all the time. I dont even want to hide the icons, I want them gone from the taskbar without effecting the operation of the program. I know XP allows icons to be always hidden but then you can reveal them by clicking on the small arrow buttons...i dont want that, just want them gone.
Thanks!



Oops, in Vista it's the Notification area tab, not Taskbar.

Please note--it's just a bit of trivia--that it was actually *always*
called the "notification area," even way back in Windows 95. "System
Tray" wasn't its *former* name, just an informal name for it.

Here's a Microsoft link to a Windows 95 page calling it the
"notification area":
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;139408

Hi Ken,

Look at the posts in xp.general of the same. Many more call it the System Tray than Notification Area, as Google came up with a paltry 320,000 hits for NA and almost 2 million for ST.


Yes, as I said, both names are used, and it's certainly not strange
that the informal name is more common than the formal one.

And as I stated to someone in that group, if the "core group" that developed it wanted it to be called that, they should have had the executable that controls it named to something other than systray.exe which still exists today.

MS can't make up their mind either, so who are they to tell us what's right and what's wrong:


Like many companies, Microsoft does many things well but other things
not so well. In my view, giving names to things is one of their
weakest areas.


Like clicking "Start" to shut down? ;-)

Did MS first decide to base their Win95 campaign on "Start Me Up" by the Stones and THEN create the Taskbar?


Terry R.
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