How can I permentantly hide the icons on my taskbar?

Question

I go onto properties and hide when active and then when I restart the pc the icons on my taskbar are there again is there any way that I can hide them once and for all so I do not have to keep going into properties to do it

Thanx in advance

Answer 1

I found this: To actually REMOVE them from the tray, you have to go to the Start Menu/Run... then type "msconfig" Then just uncheck systray, then you cannot see any item...

You have to edit the registry to make disabled icons disappear. Back-up your registry first. Somewhere here:

HKCurrent User\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\

CurrentVersion\

(Explorer)\TrayNotify\PastIconsStream" and "Icons Stream"

Read the offical MS article below: