If you work with a lot of staff on your PC, there is a high chance of icon avalanche. You don’t quite want to see all the icons jostling for space at the same time and feeling like lost within your own system.

Well, that is bad and Windows XP did solve that with its System Tray where you could arrange the necessary icons and hide the comparatively inactive ones. Windows 7 has changed that a little bit.

First, the nomenclature has changed. It is no longer known as a system tray, rather has a much more user –friendly term called Notification Area. Now you can manage this area by two means- either by drag or drop or from the control panel.

1. Drag and Drop: This is as simple as it gets. Click on the following up arrow and then just plain drag an icon to the notification area, or drop an icon off it, to show/hide icons in the Notification area.

2. Using the Control Panel Settings: This is a bit of an advanced option. You need to click on the Up arrow to open the Notification Area Icons control panel. Here you will be able to set the options to the notifications individually (show/hide).

Besides, you can also set the system icons on or off options, or keep all of them perennially on. Or just go back to the default setting through the “Restore Default Icons Behaviors” link.