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MagicTray Lets You Hide System Tray Icons, Start Button, Desktop Icons and Many More

By on July 27, 2009

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MagicTray is a free utility for Windows that enables you to perform many tweaks on your desktop such as hiding the windows tray icons, hide the “Start” button, change caption of the “Start” button, hide the desktop icons and many more.

Magic Tray Hides Different System Tray Components

The main window of MagicTray is straightforward. Here is a complete list of what you can do using this utility.

  1. Hide the system tray icons.
  2. Hide the system tray clock.
  3. Hide the quick launch tray.
  4. Hide the Start button.
  5. Hide the application switch bar.
  6. Hide the whole system tray.
  7. Change the caption in the Start button.
  8. Hide all desktop icons.

Everytime you exit this application, all the changes that you have made will revert to the previous state.

Magic Tray is worth a try, it is a nice tool to play with and in the same time, can save some space or reduce clutter from your system tray and desktop.

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Steve Yu is a technology blogger with five years blogging experience (since 2007). He is the founder of MyTechQuest.com.