How To Hide All System Tray Icons
I finally get to have some fun this week. Surveillance on my computers at work. We have a guy that is visiting porn sites. One of my operators came to me last week complaining SAV is acting up with XP Antivirus 2008. Right away I know that's garbage so I delete it, etc. Check the histroy and someone on that truck on 2nd shift is visiting porn, go figure. I know who it is but I just need proof. He doesn't sign the truck out at night which he is supposed to do. So installed a keylogger and this morning I found some more sites he is visity, panty sites, nude art, bondage, etc. My plan was to install the keylogger and then look at the cameras and then look at the time stamp on the keylogger and then pair that with the cameras. Well come to find out this one particular camera is stationary does't show me who was on the pc. This computer uses a generic username for training purposes. So as of right now I have VNC enabled as a running startup service, I'm connected and waiting for him to get one. Once I see him on I'm going to walk back there and bust him, can't wait! He is a little tech savy as he by-passed the content advisior so I then locked it down completely but thought to myself, why don't I just open it up and let him do whatever so I can catch him easier. So I did. He is savy enought to by-pass a simple filter but not savy enough to cover his tracks, idiot. So the last thing I need to do is hide the tray icons so he can't see that VNC is running, which it turns black when someone is connected. This little reg hack hides all icons in the system tray.
Open up Notepad and copy the following:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoTrayItemsDisplay"=dword:00000001
Save the text file and rename it to for example "XP_HideTrayIcons.reg". Then merge it into the registry by double clicking it. Logoff (or end the explorer.exe process and restart it) and the user's tray icons will be hidden. To undo this, simply change the value to zero.
I finally get to have some fun this week. Surveillance on my computers at work. We have a guy that is visiting porn sites. One of my operators came to me last week complaining SAV is acting up with XP Antivirus 2008. Right away I know that's garbage so I delete it, etc. Check the histroy and someone on that truck on 2nd shift is visiting porn, go figure. I know who it is but I just need proof. He doesn't sign the truck out at night which he is supposed to do. So installed a keylogger and this morning I found some more sites he is visity, panty sites, nude art, bondage, etc. My plan was to install the keylogger and then look at the cameras and then look at the time stamp on the keylogger and then pair that with the cameras. Well come to find out this one particular camera is stationary does't show me who was on the pc. This computer uses a generic username for training purposes. So as of right now I have VNC enabled as a running startup service, I'm connected and waiting for him to get one. Once I see him on I'm going to walk back there and bust him, can't wait! He is a little tech savy as he by-passed the content advisior so I then locked it down completely but thought to myself, why don't I just open it up and let him do whatever so I can catch him easier. So I did. He is savy enought to by-pass a simple filter but not savy enough to cover his tracks, idiot. So the last thing I need to do is hide the tray icons so he can't see that VNC is running, which it turns black when someone is connected. This little reg hack hides all icons in the system tray.
Open up Notepad and copy the following:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoTrayItemsDisplay"=dword:00000001
Save the text file and rename it to for example "XP_HideTrayIcons.reg". Then merge it into the registry by double clicking it. Logoff (or end the explorer.exe process and restart it) and the user's tray icons will be hidden. To undo this, simply change the value to zero.
