Visual Studio 2013 Hide Notification Button

Question

I have a question about Visual Studio 2013. I just installed it and it seems pretty good because of the new features.

But there is something I do not like:

Is it possible somehow removing these 3 x buttons ? Or just one of them?

Answer 1

Yes you can hide them.

Close Visual Studio.
Open regedit and find MainWindowFrameControls.

For example I want to remove: 1) Sign In 2) Notifications

So I need to delete:
{304ee989-b7c9-46c8-aa48-f080bc47cee0}
{73988e61-7e30-4e87-b891-23b5e460db21}

You can also delete them and it will work (you can remove feedback also by this way).
Although sometime VS recreates that keys. But solution is very easy - instead of deleting make right click and go to Permissions, add Everyone - Deny - Read. So now nobody will be able to read that keys including VS.
You can remove it to go to original state by the same way.

Answer 2

At the moment the social features don't seem to have any corresponding options you can use to disable them.

There is a method that relies on using Visual Commander extension to repeatedly hide some of the buttons (as Visual Studio often recreates them), which seems like the closest you'll get for the moment.

http://visualstudioextensions.vlasovstudio.com/2013/10/19/hide-sign-in-and-feedback-buttons-in-the-visual-studio-2013-main-window/ - You can view the code in the "Extensions" section.

Unless you're desparate to get rid of them, you're probably better of trying to ignore them, hopefully an option to hide them will become available.