Remove Java’s system tray icon – permanently.
March 26th, 2009
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If you have the Java Runtime Environment installed on your Windows (Vista) system – and chances are you do – you may have tried disabling that Java system tray icon without much luck. The problem lies in registry permissions, and the solution lies right here!
As the Administrator user in Windows, you can easily go in to the Java control panel and disable the “Place Java icon in system tray” setting and it will stick (meaning the setting actually gets saved in the registry). Problem is though, the setting seems to be per-user, so you’ve only disabled it for your Administrator account – not much use for your normal user account(s) in Windows now is it.
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