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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!
The solution doesn't work
- Press Win+R to open the Run prompt.
- Enter this value: explorer shell:::{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
- Tick the Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar checkbox.
- Click the OK button.
This is not a solution to anything. Yes, the window exists and you can check the box but it doesn't enable anything. After checking it you can't uncheck it anymore. It's just broken and useless. New Application application icons will still be hidden and need to be dragged/enabled to appear on the Systray.
This is why nobody likes Win11. I sadly have a Laptop with this pseudo OS and I can't downgrade to Windows 10 for there are some missing drivers. Thankfully my desktop PC is my main machine and this cartoon of an OS I just use it sometimes to watch Netflix. But I wont upgrade until Win10 gets crippled completely after it's end of support which is gonna be many more years than 2025.
yes, worthless... however, the next solution works perfectly...
Powershell as admin:
$RegistryPath = 'HKCU:\Control Panel\NotifyIconSettings'
$Name = 'IsPromoted'
$Value = '1'
Get-ChildItem -path $RegistryPath -Recurse | ForEach-Object {New-ItemProperty -Path $_.PSPath -Name $Name -Value $Value -PropertyType DWORD -Force }
All system tray icons now showing, even after restart, enjoy ..Do you have a solution for the taskbar as well? I don't want to show notification icon, the little arrow is sufficient for me but I want all the icon in the taskbar (the shortcut of software) are shown... At the start of Windows all is displayed properly but after 30seconds then Windows group some of them...
THIS NEEDS TO BE MARKED AS SOLUTION!!!
Nol. It's not a solution because this only makes existing hidden icons visible. After applying this, Windows continues to hide icons from new/updated software. Running that script is the same as dragging the existing tray icons one by one out of the hidden area. When that software updates, or you get new software, the tray icon for those will become hidden again.
The real solution would be to:A. make all icons default to visible instead of default hidden or,
B. treat icons as visible even when IsPromoted is set to 0.
THIS IS THE TOP
NO! It makes current list of icons show. Anything new will still start hidden and you have to run the script again to unhide them, at which point it's easier to just drag them manually!
We need an option to make notification icons initialize with IsPromoted=1 instead of starting with IsPromoted=0 and having to run a script or drag them manually to change that default.
