Remove the s t u p i d Nvidia taskbar icon

[enderzero]

What is worse than when an app loads an icon in your windows notification area and doesn't give you an option to remove the icon? ...giving you the option but making it NOT WORK!! Stupid stupid nvidia!

Here is the code for a reg file to remove the stupid thing.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\MediaCenterTray]
"NvCplDisableBalloonNotifications"=dword:00000001

;[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\MediaCenterTray\NvCpl.dll]
;"FullPath"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\NvCpl.dll"
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\MediaCenterTray\NvCpl.dll]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
;"NvMediaCenter"="RunDLL32.exe NvMCTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit"
"NvMediaCenter"=-
"NvCplDaemon"="RUNDLL32.EXE C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup"
;"NvCplDaemon"=-
"nwiz"="nwiz.exe /install"
;"nwiz"=-

What is even worse is the way the pop up balloon reminds you you don't have a 2nd SLI card (hey hey, buy another video card from us!!). That first section of the file removes the balloon notification so just use that if you like the icon or take it out if you don't have an SLI mobo.

[R3C]

I have way more icons than I'd like down there, but they're all more or less necessary these days. I don't need to worry quite as much about that sort of thing though with an extra core. I remember when a bowl of soup cost a nic... or rather when the "notification area" only had a volume icon and MAYBE a network icon. Now I have Daemon Tools, Azureus, two network, M-Audio, standard volume, and ATI.