Notification Area in Win 7

[Optimus]

Hello all,

 

I want to show all icons - including hidden ones (like Anti Virus and lan school) in the notification area. Ideally via a GPO or reghack.. anyone got an idea?

 

Thanks

[pritchardavid]

There you go mate, im afraid there is no group policy setting for this. Best but is to build a profile with this change

 

So go to regedit, change the value to 0 and export it to a registry file and your all done

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\E nableAutoTray

 

If EnableAutoTray = 0 then all icons in the notification area (system tray) are visible. Otherwise some might be hidden.

 

= 1 means is enabled which you don't want

[localzuk]

Just to add to the above - you can turn this registry change into a GPO option by making yourself a custom adm template. Instructions available here.

[DMcCoy]

It's worth deploying group policy preferences (unless they are built in like 7) as it makes reg changes like this very easy without having to create any adm/admx templates.

[ZeroHour]

(unless they are built in like 7)

They are, and yeh GPP is brilliant

[Optimus]

Thanks all - been playing with GPO Preferences today.. uber cool stuff!