For whatever reason you have, you may want to remove the notification area from your taskbar. That is the area (you hardly notice) that is located at the bottom right of your desktop and may include time, volume control, security issues or other programs.

If you really want to remove your taskbar notification area then you have to do this simple registry hack;

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

  • Create a new DWORD
  • Name it NoTrayItemsDisplay
  • Set the value to 1 (you can get it back by setting this value back to 0)
  • Done
  • Your taskbar notification area should now be gone

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