XenApp 6.5 Full Desktop – Hide PVS System Tray

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CyberRuiz

November 11, 2013

While working on a new XenApp 6.5 Deployment with Citrix Provisioning Services, I noticed the Citrix PVS Target Tools icon in the system tray when connecting to a Full Desktop session, this could be confusing or useless information for users.

Environment:

Windows 2008 R2
Citrix XenApp 6.5 Hotfix Rollup Pack 2
PVS 6.1.16
StoreFront 2.0

After researching the web a bit, I came across this HKLM key from Jack Cobben described in his blog Hide Virtual Disk Tray Icon where it simply stated to add the reg hive below.

HKLM\Software\Citrix\ProvisioningServices\Status “ShowIcon” (DWORD) 0

This however will disable to all users, even Admins, and I wanted to be able give administrators the option to see the icon.

Solution:

Apply the HKCU key below to your profile solution based on Group membership

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Citrix\ProvisioningServices]
“StatusTray”=dword:00000000

Once that is in place the icon will go away.

One response to “XenApp 6.5 Full Desktop – Hide PVS System Tray”

Cahit Tolga Darcan

November 17, 2013

Hey Daniel,
my problem is create secondary harddrive for client desktops.
Ex. C:/ is system hdd i wnt make d:/ is game e:/ is movies, possible ?

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