Remove the Network icon from the systray – Windows 2008

Posted on September 10th, 2009

Windows 2008 has some icons that appear in the systray by default. The network icon is an example that appears even in a terminal server or Citrix session, as shown:

It is un-necessary clutter that would be best to remove in the terminal server session. However, there is no Group Policy option to do this in a Windows 2003 domain.

The following registry keys are available and can be used to remove all the systray icons:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\HideSCAVolume
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoAutoTrayNotify
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\HideSCANetwork
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoTrayItemsDisplay
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\HideClock
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\HideSCAPower

These can be added as a REG_DWORD and set to 1 to enable the setting.

They can also be added to the HKCU hive if required.

Tags: hide, icon, network, network icon, NIC, registry, remove, systray, Windows 2008
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How to update the registry in an Altiris image

Posted on September 24th, 2008

How do you update the registry in an Altiris image?

The old way:

• Restore the image
• Make the changes
• Take a new image

The NEW way:

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Tags: Altiris, how to, image, image explorer, registry, update
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Run Visio viewer and Visio on the same machine

Posted on August 9th, 2008

To enable some users to view Microsoft visio documents with visio viewer and other users to use the full product.

Follow this order:

• Install visio viewer
• install visio 2003 standard
• run this regfile to re-associate .vsd files with viewer

This will default the .vsd files with the viewer
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Tags: associations, file, fix, reg, registry, script, Scripts/Reg, visio
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