Hello Drew,
Oh yes. This tutorial is for disabling (gray out) the icon for all users.
You can use an option in either tutorial below to just turn off (hide) the icon instead.
Turn On or Off System Icons on Taskbar in Windows 10
Hide or Show Notification Area Icons on Taskbar in Windows 10
Yeah, I actually found what I was looking for and posted the procedures here - Speaker Icon. I was looking for a tutorial on that. You know how it is when you're in a hurry. Anyway I'm sure you have that one. I just couldn't find it
Thanks
User values are stored in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3
Value: Settings
Type: REG_BINARY
From my experimentation it seems to be stored in the 10th byte. I just wanted to turn Location to Off, and setting that byte to 10 did the trick.
Sample script:
set "_key=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3"
for /f "tokens=3" %%A in (' reg query "%_key%" /v Settings ') do set "_sysIcons=%%A"
reg add "%_key%" /v Settings /t REG_BINARY /d %_sysIcons:~0,18%10%_sysIcons:~20% /f
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe && ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >nul && start explorer.exe
Hello,
Does anybody managed to find the DWORD for Microphone?
Thank you
Hello cykaboom1, and welcome to Ten Forums.
You could turn off the Microphone icon in Settings like in the tutorial below, but it uses a binary values that cannot be easily changed manually in the registry since it includes all the other system icons.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify
Turn On or Off System Icons on Taskbar in Windows 10
Hello Brink and thank you for de reply.
I tried to observe the differences in TrayNotify. I exported this register from a newly created Windows10 vm (virtualbox) where the Microphone was on by default. Change the microphone to off, exported again the TrayNotify register and start observing the differences. The register DOUBLED its size and de modifications seems quite random to me. I repetead the procedure to see if the third export (microphone on) matches the initial export. Random changes and I can't observe a clear pattern.
Does anyone else bumped into this?
Thank you
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I have a question about how to disappear Windows Updates Icon on the taskbar. I know the way applying for the each Client desktop, but I've got 1300 vm users. It is impossible to apply for each user. I wonder how to set disable Windows Update Icon using Registry or Group policy editer. Thanks!
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Hello youjarha, and welcome to Ten Forums.Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I have a question about how to disappear Windows Updates Icon on the taskbar. I know the way applying for the each Client desktop, but I've got 1300 vm users. It is impossible to apply for each user. I wonder how to set disable Windows Update Icon using Registry or Group policy editer. Thanks!
You could use option 3 in the tutorial below to hide the Windows Update Status icon on the taskbar notification area.
Hide or Show Notification Area Icons on Taskbar in Windows 10
My sound icon in the task bar had stopped working. This worked super easy and fast. Thank you so much!
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