Comments on: How to remove Sync Center Icon from system tray in vista

By: Papucho!

Papucho! — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:22:12 +0000

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!

By: Ripper

Ripper — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:54:18 +0000

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.

By: Mack Powell

Mack Powell — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:50:01 +0000

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.

By: Murphx

Murphx — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:19:37 +0000

Nice one Koolman007! Your comment solved it for me, too. Microsoft help actually says, “this cannot be disabled” too, hehe!

By: Koolman007

Koolman007 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:06:43 +0000

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

By: Smarter than you

Smarter than you — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:04:50 +0000

That doesn’t kill the process…just hides it. Answer the question, how do you kill it.