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Why Does Windows 11 Keep Hiding My System Tray Icons? (Taskbar Icons Missing)
I found this solution:
Open PowerShell as Administrator and run the following command:
$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
}
This forces Windows to treat all tray icons as “promoted,” which makes them stay visible.
After running it, all your system tray icons should appear, even after a restart. Enjoy it!
That "fix" was a disaster. The last command Get-Children did something to every single child in that branch, thirty-eight entries in my case (all with very long numerical names, so it did far more than I needed done. Is there any way to reverse that? I failed to first do a registry backup, and that's on me, I know.
