speaker volume icon in the icon tray

G

Guest

HI all,

I running windows 2003 with terminal service, i have disabled the sound
card, and disable sound redirection in the group policy, but the speaker icon
is still in the icon tray notification area. I want to get rid of it.

Thanks.
 
T

TP

Is this for just a single user or all users?

Did you uncheck display volume icon in the taskbar
in control panel?

Thanks.

-TP
 
G

Guest

Hi TP,

Thank you for your reply, i want to do it for all users. but i do not want
to login as them to do it one by one. It is simply impossbile. Is there a
way that i can do it globally?

Thanks
 
T

TP

Two things I recommend you do:

1. Change the Default User profile so that new users
will not have this setting. You can do this by modifying
the default user's registry using the load hive option in
regedit. The value you need to modify is:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\SysTray\Services

Change it to 27 Decimal.

Do not forget to unload the hive after you make the
modification.

2. Include a line in the usrlogon script that changes the
user's registry so that the volume control is turned off.

Here is the line, it should be all on one line, not wrapped
as it may appear in your newsreader:

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\SysTray /v Services /t REG_DWORD /d 27 /f

I have attached a .reg file for the above setting, as well as
a .cmd file that has the above command line. If you like you
could save the .cmd file to the system32 folder and call it
from the usrlogon script.

In the future, you can figure out which setting in the registry
needs to be changed for things like this by using regmon
from www.sysinternals.com.

Thanks.

-TP

Roy said:
Hi TP,

Thank you for your reply, i want to do it for all users. but i do
not want to login as them to do it one by one. It is simply
impossbile. Is there a way that i can do it globally?

Thanks
..
 
G

Guest

HI TP,

Many Thanks, I tried to use the regmon, but it runs so fast that i got
thousand of key changes in a second. very hard to know which one has been
changed.

Anyway, thanks again.
 

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