Today we are going to share a very small utility which can hide program icon from its window and Taskbar button. Why to use it? Actually lots of people like minimal look and as you can see Microsoft removed icons from Explorer toolbar to make it minimal, the same thing applies for Taskbar buttons.
As you can see in above screenshot, the program icon is not visible in window titlebar as well as in Taskbar button.
This utility works in Windows XP, Vista and 7. But in Vista and 7, it only hides titlebar icon, Taskbar button icon remains visible.
You can download the utility from following link:
Simply run the EXE file and enjoy the minimal look.
To get the icons back, open Task Manager (by right-clicking on Taskbar and select "Task Manager" or by pressing "Ctrl+Shift+Esc" keys together) and End Task of "TBarIconBlanker.exe".
You can add its shortcut to "Startup" folder in All Programs menu to start it automatically with Windows.
This utility has been developed by "skwire" @ Donationcoder. Thanks to St-Ang3R @ DA for sharing it...
This article was posted by VG in following section: Software, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
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VG
^^ Can you post a screenshot to better understand your problem?
TheAslan
So there's no any chance to hide taskbar icon too in Windows 7?? I tried this software and it worked awhile yes but then it started to show the icons again, and then it swapped the icons too totally different, i really wish that someone finds a way to use this in windows 7 too...or create another software which hides taskbar icons too...
I really want to hide my icons in taskbar but still show the texts in windows 7..... :(
reloadedm0
Hey, can I disable only titlebar icons (because I want these in the taskbar to stay there)? Thanks in advice.
VG
^^ It disables both at the time.
help!!
Can You Help Me how to remove this
VG
^^ Simply log off or restart your system. Or you can end task of the utility as mentioned at the end of the article.
Fadly
Works On Windows 7
Not working if you pin to taskbar
john
why it's not work with my windows 7 ultimate sp1?
help me vishal
VG
^^ Its working fine here.