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After installation of Virtualbox Guest Additions in winXP guest there are icon in system tray. I found only one function of it: by hovering it with cursor you can get tooltip with Guest Additions version info.

I don't need it, and i want to hide it. Maybe there is an option to disable this icon (but i still need Guest Additions)?

Now I have only one (ugly) solution: no patch EXE file with some resourse manager. Don't like this way

That is a standard Windows question, nothing to do with VirtualBox.

From Control Panel open Taskbar and Start Menu. Near the bottom of the page you will see Hide Inactive Icons. Click on Customize.

I know this way. It will give you "arrow" in place of hidden icons, with ability to press it and unhide it. Not what i want.
And it is not system-wide, it's per-user, that is also not convinient in my case.

From here:

it doesn't provide dynamic resolutions and seamless mouse (...), full screen, dynamic resolutions and mouse integration

What is the functions of VBoxTray.exe, except showing the icon? I only use windows built-in RDP connection to guest OS, i don't need sound and shared folders..

Then why did you install the Guest Additions? The tray icon is there to make sure everything keeps working and it will show you a balloon message when the additions need updating. It's best not to close or otherwise prevent the icon from loading. If you really want to, you can always disable the auto-start of the vboxtray process through msconfig.

GA are useful sometimes for administration. For regulal (RDP) users of that guest it's probably of no use.

So I disabled system-wide autorun of VBoxTray.exe in HKLM key in registry and run it only for admin (with shortcut in 'profile/Start Menu/Autostart' folder).

It's still interesting what else functions has VBoxTray.exe...