How to save Notification Hide/Show settings to transfer to another computer

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toddh

We have notebooks in our organisation which have a lot of notification
icons. Every time we set up a new one we have to manually hide all but
a few icons.

I tried using RegMon and FileMon to see where the settings were saved,
but saw nothing. I'm guessing explorer loads the settings when it
starts and saves them when it closes. All changes in between are stored
in memory.

Where are these settings kept? Is it possible to save them so that I
can distribute them across the organisation?
 
Are you talking about icons on the desktop? A default Windows XP install
only has one icon on the desktop, the Recycle Bin.

If you are imaging your laptops with a custom drive, these icons could be
stored in the administrator or all users desktops folders. I'd get a laptop
setup as you want it to look, run a SysPrep on it, then create an image. If
you install your new laptops with this image, everything will look as
expected.

If you are talking about the notification pop-up balloons in the task tray.
This is a registry hack. Here is the details to disable it.

Navigate to
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced",
create DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips with Hex value of 0 and restart
your computer.
 
Sorry I meant the system tray icons. Ie. Messenger, Volume, VET, Safely
Remove hardware, Network Connection...

I used the term Notification because when you right click the taskbar
--> Click properties --> Click customize, the heading is Customize
Notifications, which can be easily misunderstood for the XP balloon
tips.

I'll rephrase my question;

We have notebooks in our organisation which have a lot of system tray
icons. Every time we set up a new one we have to manually hide all but
a few icons by going into "taskbar properties- -> Customize"

....

etc.
 
Thanks Alan,

I was hoping that someone might know where the individual settings for
each system tray icons. The settings I refer to are the Always Show /
Always Hide settings.
 
Please quote previous correspondence or people will find it too
difficult to follow the thread and not answer.

The settings are in the same area.
Look at the TrayNotify key.

....Alan
 
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