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"Show all icons in system tray" option in windows11
Hello there. Subject said that all. This option was available till windows10 in taskbar and start menu settings, but in windows11, I found a settings to enable notification icons one by one, and not all icons remain enabled at the time. How to do this (show all icons in system tray) 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!
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abdullah5490solution is greatly appreciated, but unfortunately this seems to be a temporary solution. This is incredibly frustrating as this is not merely a cosmetic issue but affects whether you know an upload has finished synchronising, status notifications from other apps. Having to keep clicking on the up arrow to make sure if a change has occured (dropbox, for example) is a waste of time.
- It has been permanent solution for me. Once moved from the hidden box, on to the systray proper, the icons stay put!
hughletheren The OneNote icon getting pushed back to the hidden ones with each update. So does the Dropbox one. As well as the Discord one.
I wonder if one could just script the api-calls required to get them back.
- I fixed it, you can downgrade to windows 10 on the same license. Which also means you don't have that abhorrent start menu anymore.
- Not a solution I would favour and the click and move the icons does work OK and it "sticks"!
- I'm not sure what you mean with the click and move. But it sounds like you would need to manually do it every time a new program is installed or one updates. Thb, windows 11 has this winME/vista/8.1 vibe. Were microsoft just fornicates around with useless stuff a lot of people dont want.
- I tried the proposed solution but it didn't work.
In the meanwhile I found out that you can drag the icons outside the group and drop them directly on the taskbar!- This works beautifully, while the shell option is no longer working even with admin elevated permissions. Thanks fvassura!
- This - this is it. Nothing else is needed. Thank you.
- Well this is by far the best fix I've found so far, thank you.
- Thank you!
Well this is pretty frustrating to deal with and I'm glad to see that I'm far from alone. Unfortunately haruncosovic's "best response" does work but only works temporarily and in my experience only worked one time before not working at all again.
I think we should all send feedback to Microsoft about this issue and hopefully they'll take the hint if enough of us do it.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!
Unfortunately Microsoft has disabled being able to accomplish this....new suggestions needed. TY!
No longer works as of February 2025.
This didn't work for me. I had the tick already there and I still have icons not always appearing.
Right click your clock on your taskbar and choose "Customize notification icons".
A window will pop up. Select "Always show all icons and notifications in the taskbar" in the lower left corner.
Click "OK"!
misterpinkwindowshelp
Hello, did you get the Windows version wrong? What you write works in Windows 10, but not in Windows 11, which the questioner refers to.misterpinkwindowshelp nope. That's for Win10, not Win11.
- Thanks for clarifying this but misterpinkwindowshelp's post was exactly one year ago 🙂
There is still NO solution. I have to move some icons EVERY day!
I just registered a profile to tell you, you are spare parts bud.
That method does not work.
