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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Script variable trimming

Posted on May 8th, 2009

Suppose you are trying to run some scripts based on a command line variable, but the variable being passed to it is surrounded by quote marks.

i.e. “device_name” when all i want is device_name

There is an easy way to trim this. In the script need to set this passed variable to a seperate variable, and then trim it byt doing the following:

SET tempvariable=%1                 (need to set %%1 if its run as a script file)

echo %1                                      (will show “device_name”)

echo %tempvariable%                 (will show “device_name”)

echo %tempvariable:~1,-1%       (will show device_name)

The trimmed variable can then be used for another task, i.e. to start a service on a remote server

sc \\%tempvariable:~1,-1% start “ServiceName”

Happy trimming!

Tags: ", %1, clean, cmd, device_name, edgesight, remove, sc, script, set, trimming, variable
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