On a newer computer, we noticed that there was an icon called DTS Audio Panel. As we prefer a lean, mean computing machine, we wanted to remove this icon as we have with the Realtek tray icon over the years. Here's what we discovered.

Update: With some digging, we found the answer here.

We've seen the same generic answers repeated over and over again, and they don't work. These generic answers include either removing the DTS Control Panel from Startup or hiding the tray icon. We've also read that some went as far as uninstalling the drivers and installing fresh Realtek drivers only to have the tray icon reappear. Finally, we also found some registry modifications that, big surprise, didn't work either.

On our Hewlett Packard, for example, we only have three items in Startup, and we disabled the Realtek Audio Manager (DTS Audio Control) in the Taskbar, but the icon remains.



The problem here, as far as we can tell, is that the DTS Audio Panel is embedded with the Realtek drivers and Hewlett Packard computers and it can neither be hidden nor removed.

If you know something we don't, that worked for you; please leave a comment below.

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