HIDE NOTIFICATION AREA OF TASKBAR- WINDOWS XP

It is sometime we are irritated with the  system notification area in order to hide the system notification area do the following steps.

STEP 1
click on START button select RUN and type    ''gpedit.msc ''

STEP  2
Group policy edit window appears

 There are two options computer configuration and user configuration.

Computer configuration is used by administrators to change group policies that are applied to computers regardless who is log on to it.

User configuration is is used to set policies applied to user regardless the computer ie it is specified for users.

Select  User configuration.

STEP  3
Select ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES  and expand the folder. Select START MENU AND TASKBAR.

On the right pane list of settings will be displayed 

STEP  4

Select  HIDE THE NOTIFICATION AREA  and right click/double click PROPERTIES  (if right click).
A description regarding the  setting will be shown. It has mainly three options.

• NOT CONFIGURED
• ENABLE
• DISABLE

Not configured / Disable will show the notification area

ENABLE  will hide the notification are including notification icons (hidden also). The Taskbar contain only Start button,Taskbar buttons and System clock.

Important: After setting has been done do RESTART Computer