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"Show all icons in system tray" option in windows11
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!
Windows settings (right click on windows logo and click on settings) > Personalization > Taskbar > Other system tray icons (expand the third block) > Turn on which icons you want to show always.
Cheers!
- but you have to do it for each new program and this doesn't even stick (I've had Discord and other programs revert to hidden later)
- But it takes less than a second to drag them into the right place. . .
But also tomorrow. And overmorrow. And the day after tomorrow. And so on.
The situation is still crazy and there is no solution.
Of course it is no problem for low-end users and I understand that Microsoft wants to hide the icons for a clean look. As a standard setting I fully agree with Microsoft.
But for advanced users who have to test and/or reinstall some applications very often or if they have to take a look at the information that the icons changes it is totally crazy that they have to do it again and again and again.
I really hope that microsoft will delete the key combination CTRL+A in Windows 12 because then we have to select each file separately and it only takes one second per icon 🙂
kamrulext
This is a crazy solution respectively it is NO solution. If someone wants to always see every active tools always and every time in the systray, of course he do NOT want to activate it for every icon separately. And the biggest problem is, if there comes a new tool or when there is a change, with Windows 11 you always have to re-active the setting for this icon.Microsoft, why do you have to make good things worse?
I understand that you want to hide the icons as a standard to make your OS look clean.
But of course you have to make all the icons visible with one checkbox for advanced users who need all the icons really often. It is a crazy idea to force the users to activate each and every icon separately. And of course we have to do it every time again when we install a new software. Crazy, really, really crazy.
