How to remove Sync Center Icon from system tray in vista
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If you want to remove Sync Center Icon from system tray in vista follow this procedure
Open ‘Control Panel’ (Classic View);
Open ‘Taskbar and Start Menu’;
Click ‘Notification Area’ tab at top;
At the top of this window, be sure “Hide Inactive Icons” is checked, then select “Customize…” to the right of this check box;
Under ‘Current Items’, select “Sync Center”, the click the drop-down and select “Hide”
Click “OK” – “Apply” – “OK”
Then close Control Panel.
That’s it now you can’t see Sync Center Icon from system tray.
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That doesn’t kill the process…just hides it. Answer the question, how do you kill it.
Hi all. I think I figured it out. Do the following:
Under vista:
Open control Panel.
Click on Network and Internet
Click on Offlie Files
Under the general tab – Click the button that says Disbable offline files.
Then reboot. The green arrow icon should be gone.
I hope it works for you
Nice one Koolman007! Your comment solved it for me, too. Microsoft help actually says, “this cannot be disabled” too, hehe!
WAIT WAIT WAIT
While it’s true for some versions of Vista that you can disable Offline files through the Network and Internet plugin… some versions of Vista do not have this plugin, instead, it’s called Network and Sharing… and it’s not the same plugin at all. On newer Service Packs and some alternate versions of Vista, you must look in Control Panel for the Offline Files plugin, it’s an icon of a folder with a miniature sync center icon on it. Open that plugin and disable offline files from there. You will have to restart the PC before it takes affect. No disrespect “Smarter than You”, your answer was right, but there was another answer for another version. Thanks all.
For versions of Vista without the Offline Files plugin (Home Basic or Home Premium), Sync Center can be disabled via the registry as follows.
1 Go to Start/Run and type ‘regedit’. Hit the Enter key or click OK.
2 In the left hand registry editor window (the tree view) go to the following registry address…
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SyncMgr\Handlers
In there you should see a branch called…
{08b0b2d5-3fb3-11d3-a4de-00c04f610189}
3 Right-click on the branch and select Delete from the context menu.
4 Look in your system tray. The icon should be gone.
awesome man!!1… you are THE man!… i couldnt get rid of that annoying sync center for months and both methods before your post didnt help at all cause there was no such option as “disable offline files”.
Thanx Again!