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abdullah5490
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May 11, 2022
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"Show all icons in system tray" option in windows11

Hello there. Subject said that all. This option was available till windows10 in taskbar and start menu settings, but in windows11, I found a settings to enable notification icons one by one, and not ...
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  • haruncosovic's avatar
    haruncosovic
    Dec 19, 2022

    abdullah5490 

    To always show all the Icons in the System Tray or Notification area of Windows 11/10, follow these steps:

     

    1. Press Win+R to open the Run prompt.

    2. Enter this value: explorer shell:::{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
    3. Tick the Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar checkbox.
    4. Click the OK button.

     

    Hope this helps everyone!

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hughletheren
Copper Contributor
Mar 08, 2023
It has been permanent solution for me. Once moved from the hidden box, on to the systray proper, the icons stay put!
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wwevo
Copper Contributor
Mar 08, 2023

hughletheren The OneNote icon getting pushed back to the hidden ones with each update. So does the Dropbox one. As well as the Discord one.

 

I wonder if one could just script the api-calls required to get them back.

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      Psycros DeMentia
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 10, 2023

      Honestly, this seems like such a no-brainer fix.  The system tray is sometimes the only way you can tell that certain programs are running or performing tasks.  Someone at Microsoft had to actually take the time to remove a function that I'm pretty sure has been present since XP.  This is right up there with changing the four basic edit commands into meaningless unlabeled icons.  This regressive push towards hieroglyphics and mystery interfaces needs to stop.

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