Open the Group Policy Object Editor (gpedit.msc, which is not present on
the Vista Home editions), and expand the branches to User Configuration\
Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar. Double-click Hide the
notification area, select Enabled, and click OK. You??™ll have to log out and
then log back in for this change to take effect.
Figure 2-10. If you don??™t want to hide the tray completely, use this window to bury
unwanted clutter under a collapsible panel
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Shell Tweaks
Make Your Own Windows Startup Logo
The pompous Microsoft Windows Vista logo that appears for the 30 seconds
or so it takes to boot your computer can be replaced with any image
you choose; it just takes a little hacking.
First, find an image you??™d like to use. It can be a photo you took with a digital
camera or a picture you got off the Web. When you??™ve got one, use your
favorite image-editing application??”or, barring that, Vista??™s Paint program
(mspaint.exe)??”to convert the file to the .bmp format. You??™ll actually need
two .bmp files, one resized to 800 ?— 600 and the other resized to 1024 ?— 768,
but both must have a 24-bit color depth. (If your photo doesn??™t conform to
the 4:3 aspect ratio, you??™ll need to crop it or add padding so that it does.)
Next, download and install the free Vista Boot Logo Generator from http://
www.computa.co.uk/staff/dan/. (Note that at the time of this writing, this
program only works with the 32-bit edition of Vista.
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