"Show all icons in system tray" option in windows11

abdullah5490 
Alright.  I have been building out a Windows 11 deployment the last few days and I decided to share my solution as I feel it is probably better than any of the PowerShell solutions out there.

Basically, I wrote a simple executable compatible with .NET Framework 4.8 that can be placed in startup to unhide the tray icons at whatever interval a user desires.

I uploaded the entire source to GitHub (https://github.com/KMSD-Tech/TrayIconUnhide-4.8/), but feel free to grab my precompiled .exe:
https://github.com/KMSD-Tech/TrayIconUnhide-4.8/blob/main/TrayIconUnhide/bin/Release/net48/TrayIconUnhide.exe

The source is available here:
https://github.com/KMSD-Tech/TrayIconUnhide-4.8/blob/main/TrayIconUnhide/TrayIconUnhide.cs

Basically, pick a spot on your computer to store the executable (I would store it in a spot that is accessible to all users):

For example c:\programdata\scripts\TrayIconUnhide.exe

Open Regedit:

Create a REG_SZ under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run with the name TrayIconUnhide - point the value to wherever you stored the script (e.g. c:\programdata\scripts\TrayIconUnhide.exe)

The default unhide interval is 50 seconds, but you can set this to whatever you want

Simply use "c:\programdata\scripts\TrayIconUnhide.exe" --refresh 10 (where 10 is the desired interval in seconds)

This program should have very minimal CPU impact on your system.

I have tested this on my test deployment machine and it seems to work great.  I feel it is a better solution than any scheduled tasks.  Feel free to test and report any issues.