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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!
Solution doesn't work and its incorrect that is not the issue.
The issue is the system task tray icons are not fully displayed along the bottom right and if you're a power user and/or developer then those actions get very annoying when you have to constantly see the icons.
I have ditched Windows 11 in favour of Ubuntu + Omakub enhancements for this and many other similar reasons.
I am hoping Windows 12 or whatever is better but for now my advice is switch to Windows 10 final edition it still has plenty of life and this issue will not be present.
Can we mark this as unsolved.
Switching the O/S to solve a problem like this is laughably ridiculous.
Maybe you missed it, so I'll give you the exact excerpt:
"...for this and many other similar reasons." Their O/S switch was not only for this issue, but for many issues, making the O/S switch reasonably far from laughable. Personally, I think your defense of Micro$hat is laughable. Their business model and customer ignorance has caused many to seriously consider or make the O/S switch as well. Clearly, M$ is far from defendable (for this and many other reasons, like the hacker's wet dream known as Recall), but do go on and defend them if you can say they're doing well by their customers - without lying to yourself.
...Hold my BIOS. :)
Seriously, as someone that sets up ~15-25 computers a week for customers, having to manually toggle icons on in the menu... I've been searching high and low for a solution for three years now, and still have not found any solution to this.(I should add that the majority of my clientelle are... elderly, and when they need to look for an icon in the bottom-right of their screen which may not be immediately visible, it amplifies the frustration on both my side as a support tech, and on the user's side as a victim of thoughtless UX/UI changes. After constantly pushing for the return of the "Always display all tray icons" option for years now, it becomes starkly apparent that this is deemed a non-issue, and I don't expect it to be remedied any time soon.)
I'll agree that it's ridiculous that an OS change would be a bit of a ridiculous solution, but... I'm not laughing.
Here's hoping for better user feedback attention.... 😫
