Re: hide inactive icons

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

There aren't 779 registry tweaks here just because of malware.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

290. Hide Inactive Icons - Greyed Out

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:u70hgqDxGHA.4576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Alec S. <@> hunted and pecked:
"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Malware is not the cause of everything that we do not like. There are
many unexplained happenings in Windows. Windows Updates can even change
settings that you wouldn't think they would bother with.

Heck, MS Word quite often changes my visual effects to the transition
Fade Effect. P****es me off too.

That's very true (especially about some settings being forced back to the
default), but usually when a policy is altered, specifically when a
restriction is added, it is caused by malware trying to prevent the user
from being able to clean it up. Granted SP2 changed some things to lock
Windows down, but I have never heard of this setting being altered.
There is no reason for Microsoft to prevent the user from manipulating
that setting. Honestly, there isn't really any reason for a business to
stop their users from manipulating that setting either, other than
perhaps to make it slightly more difficult to hide the fact that they are
using unauthorized programs. Of course that would be pointless since
such programs already offer the user the option of not even showing the
icon, and using a hotkey to activate the interface instead (some even
offer to be hidden from the task manager.)


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