Show/hide all icons in notification area

To show or hide all icons in the notification area please do the following:

Open Registry Editor (regedit)

Navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Explorer 

or

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Explorer

Create the following DWORD 32-bit key:

EnableAutoTray

Set the value of the key to 0 if you want to hide all notification area icons or set the value to 1 if you want to hide all of the notification area icons.