How to hide system icons in Windows 7 By Drew Mathers | August 25, 2015 0 We will hide the sound icon. (Click to continue) 1 1. Click the triangle in the lower right. 2 2. Click: Customize 3 3. Click: [Show icon and notification] opposite the icon you wish to hide. 4 4. Click: Only show notifications 5 5. Click: [OK] 6 Notice that the icon is gone. Posted in Beginner
![Click: [Show icon and notification] opposite the icon you wish to hide.](http://almost-painless.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Windows-7-notification-area-icons-03.png "Click: [Show icon and notification] opposite the icon you wish to hide."){kind=icon}
