How to disable/hide the microphone icon in notification area

I want to hide microphone icon in notification area, this is the path to on/off microphone icon:
Taskbar Settings > Taskbar > Turn system icon on or off > Microphone

but I want to do this programmatically in my code
I can do this with volume/network/clock icons in this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
and changing these values: HideSCAVolume, HideSCANetwork, HideClock

but I couldn't find the value name for microphone icon!
any one knows the microphone registry value or another way to do that?

dalchina said:

Does anyone know it? Probably not, unless they research it for you and are lucky enough to find it.

But you can try to discover it for yourself using a free program called Regshot. (there are others like it). This gives you a short report before and after the registry change, comparing the registry snapshots.

Sometimes you can see the relevant change easily, sometimes it's 1 bit somewhere in 1000s. Depends how it's stored.

I'm working on this about one week and searched a lot but I didn't find any thing
so I forced to ask here, yes I used a program and compared the changes
the related changes were Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify\IconStreams and \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify\PastIconsStream

after the comparison I set microphone icon On from Taskbar Settings, then refresh registry and export TrayNotify (On.reg)
then set it Off and again refresh and export TrayNotify (Off.reg)

then I tried to test is this exactly help me or not, I delete TrayNotify and import the exported TrayNotify (On.reg) and then restart explorer.exe, but in Taskbar Settings the microphone icon was still off

Programmatically means that you are trying to do something like silencing the camera shutter sound in smartphones --- basically a privacy concern no-no. Next you will be trying to programmatically turn off the webcam on/off indicator light.

sandyt said:

Programmatically means that you are trying to do something like silencing the camera shutter sound in smartphones --- basically a privacy concern no-no. Next you will be trying to programmatically turn off the webcam on/off indicator light.

Programmatically I means I want to write a program and simulate Taskbar Settings > Taskbar > Turn system icon on or off with c/c++

I want to turn the system network, speaker, microphone icon on/off in my program


I googled a lot but didn't find any thing that helps me to do that.

From registry and HideSCANetwork , HideSCAVolume it is possible to on/off network and speaker icon but I don't know the registry key for microphon

Because it has privacy implications, Microsoft doesn't let you do it programmatically. How hard is it for you to understand that?

sandyt said:

Because it has privacy implications, Microsoft doesn't let you do it programmatically. How hard is it for you to understand that?

I know it's nothing impossible to do in computer programmatically, if it can be done by my choice in computer so it also can be done programmatically

they have no difference and all three can be changed from Taskbar Settings > Taskbar > Turn system icon on or off
why hiding the network and speaker icon can be done programmatically but microphone doesn't?

mopebi said:

I know it's nothing impossible to do in computer programmatically, if it can be done by my choice in computer so it also can be done programmatically

they have no difference and all three can be changed from Taskbar Settings > Taskbar > Turn system icon on or off
why hiding the network and speaker icon can be done programmatically but microphone doesn't?

Because they made it so that you have to do it physically to make sure that it is you doing it. In many jurisdiction, it is actually illegal to record a conversation without consent from both parties.

From an UI perspective, you may see no difference. But from the way Microsoft programmed it, it is entirely different.

dalchina said:

Thnk you for your reply.

You'd need the exact bit that changed from those. That's assuming changing it actually achieves what you seek of course.

it isn't just a bit
and every time I on and off the microphone icon and get screen shot and compare the result is different
for example now I off the microphone icon and the IconStreams is 00 14 00 ... 2b 00 12 ...
next time I on and off the microphone again and the IconStreams will be 00 14 00 ... 3d 10 00 ...
while they should be same!