How to Show ALL System Tray icons without selecting them one by one? See Print Screen for more details

Feuer said:

Code:

:: NotifyIconSettings [SHOW ALL]
for /f "tokens=*" %%A in (
  'REG QUERY "HKCU\Control Panel\NotifyIconSettings" ^| findstr /v "REG_" ^| findstr /v "NotifyIconSettings$"'
) do (
    REG ADD "%%A" /v "IsPromoted" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f >nul
)

:: SystemTrayChevronVisibility [ON]
REG ADD "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify" /v "SystemTrayChevronVisibility" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f

.BAT file i use to show all system tray icons

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This forces you to rerun the script each time after another subkey gets added under the key
"HKCU\Control Panel\NotifyIconSettings".
Also, AFAIK the Windows 11 taskbar still has a (hard) limit on how many icons can be visible in its system tray, or "notification area" before it will add its chevron-sign (∧) button that lets you access its "taskbar corner overflow" menu that we're trying to avoid in order to prevent losing productivity.

I find that the "Always show all taskbar tray icons" Windhawk mod (see the link I posted in my previous reply to this thread) is the best solution right now. That is, for those who don't want to use ExplorerPatcher's "Windows 10 (ExplorerPatcher)" taskbar style option—and assuming that your boss doesn't force you to be less productive by telling you that tools like these are verboten whilst passing the blame for your being less productive on you.

StartAllBack will do it too.

Feuer said:

Code:

:: NotifyIconSettings [SHOW ALL]
for /f "tokens=*" %%A in (
  'REG QUERY "HKCU\Control Panel\NotifyIconSettings" ^| findstr /v "REG_" ^| findstr /v "NotifyIconSettings$"'
) do (
    REG ADD "%%A" /v "IsPromoted" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f >nul
)

:: SystemTrayChevronVisibility [ON]
REG ADD "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify" /v "SystemTrayChevronVisibility" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f

.BAT file i use to show all system tray icons

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Hi I saved and ran this batch file but I still get most icons "hidden" behind the ">" icon. Might it be so because I am using ExplorerPatcher?

berliner770 said:

Hi I saved and ran this batch file but I still get most icons "hidden" behind the ">" icon. Might it be so because I am using ExplorerPatcher?

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If you use ExplorerPatcher's "Windows 10 (ExplorerPatcher)" taskbar style option, then you don't need to run any script nor need to apply any registry tweaks nor need to do anything special. Instead, you can go to ExplorerPatcher settings > Taskbar > Customize notification area icons. Then, in the window that opens, check the checkbox at the bottom (see the screenshot from post #10).

(Step 2 from post #10 is just an alternative way to open this same window, by using explorer to open the window's shell link.)

berliner770 said:

Hi I saved and ran this batch file but I still get most icons "hidden" behind the ">" icon. Might it be so because I am using ExplorerPatcher?

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I do not use ExplorerPatcher, so i really do not know if it is about that app.

Try to run script in administrator mode, then restart your explorer.exe or restart your computer.