How To Hide System Tray Icons

The system tray is the small area at one end of the Task Bar (the bar that contains the Start Button) near the clock. It's a really handy area where many programs place their cute little icons, and where you can have some other handy icons display, such as the CPU Usage meter for the Task Manager, the sound icon, network traffic icons, etc. There can also be many less useful icons placed in that area as well. Fortunately, Windows XP gives you some control over which icons display there, so you can choose to only see the ones you deem worthy or useful.
To manage this area, simply right click the Taskbar, and choose Properties. In the Properties window that appears, on the Taskbar tab, check the box next to "Hide Inactive Icons" if it isn't already checked, and then click the "Customize..." button. That will bring up a window that allows you to choose one of three behaviors for each program icon that appears in the system tray: "Hide when inactive," "Always hide," or "always show."

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