Re: How to move iconified Zone Alarm freeware from task bar to system tray

Sharon B. wrote:
In WinXP, how do we move Zone Labs ZoneAlarm freeware to iconify into the
system tray on the bottom right corner instead of into the task bar at the
bottom of the screen?

After reading this newsgroup, I installed the recommended freeware Windows
XP software firewall from Zone Labs called ZoneAlarm.

ZoneAlarm installed quite nicely and then politely asked me if I wanted to
allow or deny various Internet attempts from within my computer. I actually
enjoyed the installation process and subsequent setup.

My only issue is that the ZoneAlarm freeware software firewall iconifies
BOTH into the task bar (is that what it's called?) at the bottom of my
standard Windows XP display and it also leaves an icon at the bottom right
in the system tray indicating it's running all the time (I guess that's
what that system tray indicates).

But I don't need BOTH iconified icons. I just want ZoneAlarm freeware firewall to be in the system tray.
I don't want the Zone Labs icon in the task bar of running programs.
Most (if not all) other programs seem to do this.

Avast antivirus freeware, for example, just iconifies into the system tray
(and even collapses multiple Avast icons in that system tray into a single
icon on demand). Mozilla Firefox just iconifies on the task bar but not in
the system tray (why do some programs go into the system tray while others
go into the task bar?).

I just want Zone Alarm to iconify into the system tray & not the task bar.

Since the ZoneLabs ZoneAlarm software firewall is always running, I really
don't need to see it in the task bar on the bottom of my screen (taking
space from other iconified programs which do not run all the time).

Short of killing ZoneAlarm, how do I get rid of the icon in the bottom of
the Windows XP screen (leaving the icon in the system tray)?

Sharon

ZA's tray bar thingie doesn't usually appear when I install ZA, but there have been times that it has, and I'm unsure of why sometimes yes and sometimes no. However, I recall that I was able to get rid of it somehow, and I believe it involved right-clicking it and looking for an option for permanently turning it off.

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Daze
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