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Create an invisible icon in Windows 7 Taskbar

12/29/2009 7:12 PM

Vasu Jain

www.WindowsVJ.com
Joined: 1/28/2008

Posts: 4033

Create an invisible icon in Windows 7 Taskbar

Like we can make an invisible folder in Windows, we can make a secret icon in task bar, that would be invisible and only the person who made it would know its existence.

To create an invisible icon it must be an application whose icon would be changed via a tool Resource Hacker which we have used in earlier XP days to change the start button and tweak the XP to its limits.(Credits to AskVG.com for the same). I tcan be downloaded and need not to be installed , just run it with admin privileges.

1. After you have launched Resource Hacker, select the file whose icon is to be made invisible. For this go to File>open and select the location of Firefox executable file.( Here we are taking firefox as the application which will be secret)

2. Click on open button and it will appear like this: