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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 ...
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!
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.
- You, sir, are DA man, sir. Thank you.
- It is a shame that people have to transform into hackers for simple thinks like seeing what is running, thanks man for the solution Microsoft is unable to give
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.
this doesn't exist haruncosovic
Windows 11 - All you need to do is right click on the task bar and go to 'Settings.'
Then move this slider to 'off'.- All this does is get rid of the tray expansion and completely hides the hidden icons so you won't even know something is running. THIS IS DANGEROUS! I have verified this by ticking off the hidden icon menu as you suggested and then hiding a currently running program and it just disappears with no indication the program is still running.
- haruncosovic's response works. it baffles me why Microsoft don't have this by default. monitors are bigger/wider. many other options too. another example: you cannot add 'this pc' to the taskbar???
haruncosovic didn't work for me. still have 2 icons hidden.
Still works like a charm!
