135. Minimize Outlook to the System Tray

To Minimize Outlook XP to the System Tray / Taskbar:

Start-> Run -> Regedit and navigate to : HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Office \ 10.0 \ Outlook \ Preferences

Click on the right side of the screen, right-click and create:

DWord Value: MinToTray
Set value at: 1 (enable) or 0 (to disable MinToTray)

130. Hide tray Icons

Do you need to hide a program running in the background that shows in your System Tray? Try this reg hack to hide all tray icons. It’s not anything like the Windows XP tray icon hider, this one shows no trace of any icons. It would look like someone closed all background programs.


1) Click on START>RUN and type "regedit" (without the quotes).
Navigate to the following key;

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer

2) Add a "REG_DWORD" entry entitled "NoTrayItemsDisplay". Open it up and assign the Hex value of 1 to hide the Icons. The value of 0 is normal (default), showing the icons.

3) Close "regedit" and reboot computer and the icons should not be there anymore. Control Alt and Delete will bring up Windows Task Manager and items can be displayed and closed (if need be) from in there instead.


I found this hack to be very useful when covertly using telephone recording software. Now the girlfriend can be engaged in her game of SIMS™ while talking on the phone and being recorded and she has no idea. lol

112. Place your name in taskbar

To place your name is XP task bar, just do it.

• Go to control panel
• Select Date, Time, Language, and Regional option menu.
• Click on ' Change the format of numbers, dates and times'.
• On regional option menu select 'customize'.
• Select Time menu.
  
• Type your name on AM symbol tag and PM symbol tag after AM & PM
• Click OK.

Example

94.Place a custom popup menu on your taskbar

If you would like to create a popup menu on your taskbar that contains all of your frequently accessed programs, here's how:

1. Go to Start>> Accessories>> Windows Explorer.
2. With Windows Explorer open, select a location for a new folder. Then, go to File>> New>> Folder.
3. Name the new folder whatever you would like and then place all of your frequently used programs in this folder.
4. Next, right click an empty portion of your taskbar then select Toolbars>> New Toolbar from the resulting menu.
5. With the New Toolbar window showing, browse to the location of your new folder. Once the new folder is selected, click OK.

Your newly created folder will now reside within the taskbar. To easily see the contents of this folder, click the double arrows (usually to the right of the name) to view its contents. If you would like to remove this new folder from the taskbar, right click an empty portion of the taskbar and select Toolbars. Then click the "New Folder" entry within the resulting list.