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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!
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!
I ran the prompt. I entered the value, I checked the box, the box had a blue check mark in it, I clicked the ok button, and my icons are still only partially visible. I've had so many problems with windows 11. This is the last change I need to make and it's not working. I guess I have to go in manually every time something changes and tell this piece of crap operating system to show each one individually. If I ever meet Bill Gates I will slap him like Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. As the police are taking me away I will scream out, "that's for not letting me automatically show all the icons on my taskbar in windows 11!!!"
josh672 I am with you brother. Microsoft: all about coulda, not shoulda.
- Bill stopped being a full-time board member a year before windows 7 and fully quit the board a year before windows 11. He has absolutely nothing to do with 11.
- right click on the taskbar
select taskbar settings
scroll down to taskbar corner overflow, expand the list by clicking on the arrow on the right
select 'on' for all items
abdullah5490 solution works only once. after restart, it goes back to normal
I tried this and it worked. However, later on in the day, it stopped working, I have to click on the arrow to see some icons. When I went through the process again, the Notifications Area Icons window still has a tick by the always show all icons but I cannot untick it or tick it again???
Have you got an ideas, please!- Yes same here
It is good to know I am not alone. Frustrating - let's hope somebody can help!
- Amazing, thank you. I reported this years ago during the first Windows 11 tests and they told me there were no plans to add it...
haruncosovicThis didn't change anything. Some icons are still hidden. Do I need a restart?
You have to launch the shell as admin (shift click).
This seems to work but is not sticky after restarts.
- Wao, o man, where were you hidden from 2020 since windows11 arrived? Thankyou very much
- But yeah this isn't actually a solution and we really need Microsoft to just change this because I think we're far from the only people having this problem
- I almost fell in love with this reply. I almost turned you into a Win11 god. The option exists. When you tick that box it, for some some very dark and obscure reason, it can't be turned off ever again. Nevermore! Oh, Lenore! But nevermind: it changes nothing.
Win11 is a terrible OS, irredeemable in any way.
Thanks for your secret. You brought hope and light to this soul for a second. Sadly MS has bound us in darkness forever and has determined to keep us, an our icons, forever there.
No, this is not ChatGPT, it's what MS in instilling in me right now. It's this or I'll fcking punch this new machine I have. Poor hardware, always paying and enduring for software errors.
I can't touch a Win11 PC with a 10 foot pole. My eyes hurt, my heart weeps, what has become of MS? I mean, they always been bad... but they have surpassed all their standards so far and wide! Apparently Shitrosoft did not like the shell hack and decided to gut and kill the feature entirely.
What is wrong with this trash company riddled with cretins?
What kind of braindead RETARD thinks of these things?
By the way, I initially was just going to create a fresh partition to test W11 on, but the installer figured **bleep** it, I'll show you nothing but a spinning throbber and by the time it finished it overwrote my W10 system and upgraded against my will. Pajeet tier coding. Nothing but mentally ill **bleep** eaters left in the development department. Death and famine to this rotten company. **bleep** you.
uaetwiuo7 woke madness seems to be plaguing companies.
From a UI perspective I can understand it avoid distractions but that is the system tray its meant to inform you at all times quickly but the reason I suspect is due to the notification toasts these are priority over just flipping being able to access the icons in full view.
From a UX perspective its a nightmare its causes anxiety for me and I am neurodiverse I get p(ssed off in minutes especially when you are a dev and have many system try icons.
haruncosovic Thank you! Been looking for this fix for months. 🙂
- Real man of genius! Ty so much. This is exactly the solution I was looking for!
