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Block friends status updates on facebook

Ken — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:48:08 +0000

To hide friends status updates on Facebook without deleting them as a friend you have to go with mouse over your friends updates from your wall and click Hide.

facebook Hide friend status

Second step is to click Hide [name] button which will hide forever your friend status updates.

To un-hide your facebook friends wall updates is quite simple – go down on wall screen and at the bottom of the page click on Edit Options and after that select your friends who’s updates you want to follow, clicking on Add to News Feed button.

How to Hide only Specific System Tray Icons

Ken — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:27:11 +0000

Two weeks ago I was giving the solution for hiding all the System Tray Icons and now, as I promise, I am talking about hiding only specific System Tray Icons. It’s verified both in Windows XP and Windows Vista.

1. Right click on the taskbar and select properties
2. Now select Notification Area and then click Customize
3. Now, click the specific icon you want to hide in system tray and select always hide in the dropdown box.
Windows by default display icons for active or urgent notifications and hide inactive ones.

This method is not guarantee that will work for any application.

How to Hide System Tray Icons Using Regedit Command

Ken — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:27:23 +0000

This tutorial is about how to hide all system tray icons using registry. It’s working perfect in XP and Windows Vista. In the next blog post I’ll show you how to hide only specific icons.

1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type regedit and press Enter

2. Go to the following path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3. Create a DWORD value by right clicking the right pane and click new, then DWORD value

4. Name the key as NoTrayItemsDisplay

5. Double click the key after creation and set the value as 1

6. Close registry and restart your computer in order for the settings to take into effect.