Registry - get rid of sound icon in system tray?

[bigred]

Does anyone know how to turn off/edit the volume/sound system tray icon, through the registry?

I'd like to include this as one of my registry tweaks for my cd...

Thanks

[Aaron]

I'll see what I can do

edit: looks like about 12 changes are made to the registry when the sound icon in the systray is disabled. Hard to track.. sorry!

If you're wondering, I used RegMon from sysinternals to track the SetValues it made. Although I'll need a better app to make complete snapshots before and after.

[bigred]

That's ok...but thanks for checking it out for me...

It's a little thing to change afterward....but of course I was trying to make "the perfect cd"....

Sigh...I guess it won't be perfect any more

[matgroulx]

Here is the fix to remove AC97 Icon (OnBoard Sound on most MotherBoards)

;Remove AC97 Volume tray icon

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Avance\AC97 Audio\ALSMTray]

"ShowIcon"=hex:00

[bigred]

Hmm...thanks matgrouix.....unfortunately I have a SoundBlasterLive card

[snooz]

I'll contribute

Here is the reg location.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\SysTray]

"Services"=dword:0000001f

This is with the icon enabled.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\SysTray]

"Services"=dword:0000001b

Here it is disabled.

This annoyed me too

[bigred]

Nice....thanks snooz...I'll give it a try.

[fillalph]

Not sure if this will work or not. but here she goes.

Specifies whether to install the Volume Control feature on the computer.

Syntax vol = On | Off 
Values On 
Installs the Volume Control feature on the computer.

Off 
Does not install the Volume Control feature on the computer.

Default Value On 
Example Vol = On

Registry Subkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Setup\OC Manager\Subcomponents\vol

]Bonkers[

[snooz]

I pondered this myself and by doing this the sound did not work. The registry fix I posted does though after a reboot.