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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!
A couple of weeks ago, I threw together a similar solution in a tiny C++ app. Already posted it previously in the thread, but the post for some weird reason doesn't appear.
Anyway, https://github.com/Aemony/NotifyIconPromote is a similar super-tiny C++ app that can be kept running in the background and will idle and automatically promote all new icons as they appear. It will also adhere to the user's choice of hiding some icons so it will never force the reveal of an already customized icon.
It doesn't have a refresh timer because it has no need of one. On launch, it will check the registry once, and automatically promote any new unconfigured icons, and then it will just sit and wait, sleeping, in the background until a change occurs that warrants its operation. It's also permanently tagged to run in Windows 11's Efficiency Mode so even when it wakes up, it'll always be prioritized below/after any regular foreground or background apps.
Excellent solution. MS should give you a reward for for doing their work.