System tray not working properly

ICIT2LOL · Jun 9, 2023

I recently had a devils own job getting rid of a blank square at the bottom right hand corner of my screen and found it was a snake oil spyware software that was doing it. However since then the system tray is not showing as normal ie some tray icons only and not a pop up tray icon box. see pic
I have tried restarting Windows Explorer deleting the icon cache from the appdata feature and also tried adding the system tray icons from Settings all to no effect. Any help would be really appreciated.

Ghot · Jun 9, 2023

ICIT2LOL said:
I recently had a devils own job getting rid of a blank square at the bottom right hand corner of my screen and found it was a snake oil spyware software that was doing it. However since then the system tray is not showing as normal ie some tray icons only and not a pop up tray icon box. see pic
I have tried restarting Windows Explorer deleting the icon cache from the appdata feature and also tried adding the system tray icons from Settings all to no effect. Any help would be really appreciated.
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Just drag and drop whatever icons you want to hide (under the arrow), to a point just above the system tray.
That will create the arrow and the spot for the hidden icons.

ICIT2LOL · Jun 9, 2023

Thanks Ghot mate that worked a treat the only thing I want to do now is create icons for the Samsung Magician. Network etc for example as I have only two in the tray at the moment - my security one and remove USB safely??

Ghot · Jun 9, 2023

ICIT2LOL said:
Thanks Ghot mate that worked a treat the only thing I want to do now is create icons for the Samsung Magician. Network etc for example as I have only two in the tray at the moment - my security one and remove USB safely??

You need to "Turn On" the icons you want to see in the System Tray...
Then, if you want, you can drag them to the hidden area also.

ICIT2LOL · Jun 9, 2023

Ok mate I will try that method.
Hmm tried that Ghot but the icons would not budge off the Personalization settings.

Ghot · Jun 9, 2023

ICIT2LOL said:
Ok mate I will try that method.
Hmm tried that Ghot but the icons would not budge off the Personalization settings.

Once you turn them on you might have to reboot or restart Explorer.

ICIT2LOL · Jun 9, 2023

Oh ok I'll try both mate.

ICIT2LOL · Jun 9, 2023

Ok mate I have restarted Explorer it sort of flickers a bit between percentages and then stops and also I have rebooted but still no go.
I have now sent a pic of what I et.

Ghot · Jun 9, 2023

ICIT2LOL said:
Ok mate I have restarted Explorer it sort of flickers a bit between percentages and then stops and also I have rebooted but still no go.
I have now sent a pic of what I et.

You need to turn on Samsung Magician... if you want to see it in the System Tray.

ICIT2LOL · Jun 9, 2023

Ok mate I have turned on as you see several icons in the Personalization setting but am still only getting my security system and USB removal icons. Am beginning to think that the system is broke somewhere?

Ghot · Jun 10, 2023

ICIT2LOL said:
Ok mate I have turned on as you see several icons in the Personalization setting but am still only getting my security system and USB removal icons. Am beginning to think that the system is broke somewhere?

After you turn it on you have to restart Explorer.

ICIT2LOL · Jun 10, 2023

Yes Ghot mate I did that and still no go I shall just leave as is and try a system restore tomorrow. Thanks for your help anyway

Ghot · Jun 10, 2023

ICIT2LOL said:
Yes Ghot mate I did that and still no go I shall just leave as is and try a system restore tomorrow. Thanks for your help anyway

It may be that it's just something that is broken in Windows itself... not just "your" Windows.
It seems my system won't do it either. Macrium is listed in the System Tray list on settings... but toggling it on, and restarting Explorer doesn't work. I'm guessing it's a built in Windows problem.

Maybe just make it a regular Taskbar icon?

Another possibility is to check the settings IN Samsung Magician.
Some programs have their own setting to create a System Tray icon.

ICIT2LOL · Jun 10, 2023

Yes mate I have some set as regular taskbar icons so I will leave it at that and not do a system restore because who knows what that would do eh?

Thanks again for staying with this and have a great day.

Ghot · Jun 10, 2023

ICIT2LOL said:
Yes mate I have some set as regular taskbar icons so I will leave it at that and not do a system restore because who knows what that would do eh?
Thanks again for staying with this and have a great day.

I don't try to fight with Windows 11.
If it doesn't want to make a System Tray icon... I just make a regular Taskbar icon.

Fabler2 · Jun 10, 2023

Select the audio icon in sys tray then in the open pane select 'edit quick settings' ( icon looks like a pen) it should show what you can add.

ICIT2LOL · Jun 10, 2023

Ghot said:
I don't try to fight with Windows 11.
If it doesn't want to make a System Tray icon... I just make a regular Taskbar icon.

Yep me too Ghot mate one gets sick of the constant glitches and bugs though

Ghot · Jun 10, 2023

ICIT2LOL said:
Yep me too Ghot mate one gets sick of the constant glitches and bugs though

To me they're just boss monsters and side quests. They make up my favorite game... Windows 11.

ICIT2LOL · Jun 10, 2023

Fabler2 said:
Select the audio icon in sys tray then in the open pane select 'edit quick settings' ( icon looks like a pen) it should show what you can add.

Yes Fabler but I don't have the audio symbol on the taskbar on my main desktop or I would.