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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!
Swadelus The issue is that by default any new icon is hidden. This normally wouldn't be an issue, but some applications (for example discord) are not always recognised as the same application when they update (it also means that whenever I pin it to taskbar and it updated the link breaks because it is to a removed "old" executable and not the new one.
The thing which saved this in Win 10 is that by default it showed all icons in the tray unless you hide them, so it didn't matter that it was a "new" icon, it was still visible. I guess, in this way if you did have an app that kept updating but you wanted to hide then you kept having to do that, but I think I prefer the old approach.
They should at least include some options to either show all icons or to show new icons by default, but they really want everyone to have a clean mac-like interface rather than the kind of full interface with a taskbar full of information that a lot of power users end up with.
I don't mind that they changed the default, since it matches what they think most people want, its removing the customisability that annoys me.
sanekreed
there is a registry hack
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-hidden-icon-menu-on-taskbar-system-tray-in-windows-11.5132/