Quickly hide Tray's hidden icons menu?

[Slammer]

The little popup box in the tray that comes up when you hit the up arrow (to "Show hidden icons") is bugging me. It seems to have a timer built in that hides it a couple seconds after you click on one of the icons inside. This really bugs me. I would prefer that it either hide itself immediately after I click on one of the icons (but not if I right click one, obviously) or else lets me hide it by clicking directly on it somewhere. I know I can hide it by clicking on the arrow again, but some of my tray applications (namely my Portable Apps Launcher) minimize again if I click that arrow, leaving me with no other option than to wait for that annoying box to hide itself and get out of the way.

So is there any way I can either set it to hide immediately after clicking on an icon, or to close when I click on the box itself? I'm sure there must be some registry value i can change or something to do that. Thanks!

 

[Slammer]

I think some of must have thought I was posting instructions or something... But thanks for all the rep I guess haha. I'm still looking for help with this

 

[Lemur]

I am not advocating this solution. By that, I mean I think I found what you're looking for, but am not personally willing to try it

The Taskbar Activate page

 

[Slammer]

Thanks for the quick post post, but not quite what I'm looking for. I'm having problems with the tray pop out menu, not the taskbar itself.