Comments on: How to Hide or Remove Action Center Icon from Notification Area in Windows 7

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:47:59 +0000

The instructions have changed a bit since when you wrote this post and now, but it was good enough to help me find where to turn off the icon. Was bugging me wasting space when there were no notifications. Thanks!

By: Steve Mason

Steve Mason — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:33:32 +0000

How to Disable and Remove Alert Center System Icon (CORRECTED)

Step #2 should be changed to; Change “Viewed by:” to “Large Icons” found in the drop down found in the upper left of the screen.

Step #3 should be; Click on the “Notifications Area Icons”.

Step #4 should be; Click on “Turn system icons on or off”.

Step #5 should be; In the “Behaviors” drop down list of Alert Center, select Off.

Step #6 Click on the “OK” button when done.

These procedure changes are per build 7600.16385 Windows 7 Ultimate install.

By: xxxDex

xxxDex — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:45:53 +0000

No such thing as “System Icons” in my Control Panel.
But there is/are “Notification Area Icons”.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:09:39 +0000

Hello,
On my Windows 7 computer it started to say started to say: cannot find C:\Windows\System32\Config\Desktop. And the sidebar would not start because it said that the .ini file was in use. So i did a system restore. It now works, but, the action center icon doesn’t show up unless you turn off all system icons, apply, close the notification window, and then then wait for a while, then it will show, and then you have to turn all the system icons on again. I don’t know what’s wrong, any ideas? I dual boot Vista and Windows7, the trouble started after I restored a onecare backup on the Vista Partition, and I burned a couple of DVDs, would that have affected it?
Yours Truly
Alex Holyoake

By: Pixelated

Pixelated — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:28:58 +0000

I disabled it using the group policy editor. GPEDIT.MSC. Under administrative templates\start menu and taskbar you can enable\disable all sorts of things.

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