Right-click on the Command Prompt application and select Run as administrator. To change how icons and notifications appear. And name it as TaskbarSi and click on OK. Figure 2: Settings catalog profile for the Taskbar layout on Windows 11; On the Scope tags page, configure the required scope tags and click Next; On the Assignments page, configure the assignment and click Next; On the Review + create page, verify the configuration and click Create; Important: When applying a new, or adjusted, Taskbar layout, the existing layout of the user will be overwritten. Go to the Personalization section, then click Taskbar. Dec 7, 2021 at 15:40. Enable taskbar auto-hide. (see screenshot below) Open Taskbar settings . Navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > Advanced" from the list of folders on the left. The taskbar corner and taskbar corner overflow menu in Windows 11 shows the notification icons for apps. Now drag-n-drop the icon to notification area near Volume, etc icons. 1 Open Settings (WIn+I). How to enable a small taskbar in Windows 11. Step 1: Open the Registry Editor on your computer. Install the Windows image to a technician computer. Click on Personalization on the left side and click on Taskbar on the right side. After the image boots, go into audit mode by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+F3. The overflow up arrow is gone, and the taskbar "overflow corner" selection is also gone from settings. Click the up arrow icon to display app icons in the Taskbar corner overflow section. You can read the batch file before you run it obviously if you're worried about what it's doing. Follow the steps to access the Windows 11 Registry Editor to change the default taskbar icons size: Click the Windows/Start button to launch the Start menu. Sometimes the notification icons cache may get corrupted causing the icons to display incorrectly or distorted, and still show icons of uninstalled apps in the Taskbar corner overflow settings. Click on Taskbar corner overflow on the right side to expand it. (see screenshot below step 4) 4 Turn On (show) or Off (hide . This is also a Windows 10 problem and I've had to run this batch file a couple of times in the past. Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar and select Taskbar settings. Now, unless you hover the mouse cursor over the taskbar area, the taskbar will stay hidden. Here you can check which icons appear in the System Tray. Follow these instructions to show taskbar corner overflow icons in the system tray. On the Start search box, type regedit . Click Taskbar Corner Overflow. Top-align taskbar: 01. Bottom-align taskbar: 03. Scroll down in the taskbar settings and open the Taskbar behaviors section. Expand open the left pane to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify key. It'll immediately move the icon from Taskbar corner overflow menu to notification area. When this happens, the notification icons needs to be deleted in the registry to reset and . Open Start and type cmd on the search box. The most comprehensive source of . Reset Taskbar Corner Overflow Icons in Windows 11 (Tray Icons) Close all the running apps, including open File Explorer windows. Just let it do it's thing and reboot when it asks you. Right-align taskbar: 02. After installing Windows 11, I decided to uninstall one of the apps I had downloaded. Microsoft has quietly added to Windows 11 22H2 a new taskbar-related feature that allows removing all icons from the notification area, effectively leaving only the clock and default indicators. Customize Windows 11 Taskbar Notification Area. Open Windows Settings in Windows 11 using the Win + I shortcut or any other method. - Grx70. Under Taskbar corner icons: Select On for any icons you want to see on the taskbar. To reset Taskbar Corner Overflow Icons in Windows 11, we have to do it in the Registry Editor. Open the Run command by pressing Windows + R and type Regedit and hit enter. Click on Personalization. When you've changed the value, click OK to exit the window. Notification icons for apps appear in the taskbar corner and taskbar corner overflow menu in Windows 11. However, in my taskbar settings under "Taskbar corner overflow," the application still shows up in the icon list. Press and hold the app icon you want to make visible, then drag and drop the icon near other items on the . If I select icons under it to on, those background app icons are permanently on the taskbar, not in the overflow section. Everything went smoothly and it was uninstalled off of my computer. Click on Taskbar corner overflow. Turn On or Off notification icons for apps in which icons you want to hide or show under the taskbar corner overflow. From the left-hand side, right-click on the Advanced Registry key and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. For this, click on the Start menu and search for "Registry Editor" and click on it from the results. ; Leave the Registry editor app running, and press . On the prompt, copy-paste this command: explorer shell::: {05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9} and hit enter. So, before diving into the process, backup your registry settings and get into it. Select Off for any icons you don't want to see on the taskbar. You actually don't have to use the Personalization -> Taskbar -> "Taskbar corner overflow" settings page. Right-click Advanced in the left pane and select . I do see a "Hidden icon menu" selection in the taskbar "Other system tray icons", but toggling this does nothing. 9. Enabling apps will bring their icons to the notification area to the left from the control . 2 Click/tap on Personalization on the left side, and click/tap on Taskbar on the right side. Press Win + R and type regedit into the Run box to open the Registry editor. Your taskbar should now appear at the top of the screen. Here check the checkbox next to the Automatically hide the taskbar option. Search the internet for Reset_Notification_Area_Icons_Cache.bat. Now Navigate to the following path. Disable all the icons you want to hide from the notification area in Windows 11. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to launch the Task Manager, right-click on the Windows Explorer process, and select Restart. 3 Click/tap on Taskbar corner overflow or Other system tray icons (build 22572) on the right side to expand it open. This command will open the Registry Editor. Any items not checked will go into the overflow or hide behind the arrow, as shown at the top of this tutorial. Simply dragging the icon from the popup onto the tray bar will have the same effect - the switch will be flipped to On in the settings page. Hide or Show Icons in Taskbar Corner Overflow Menu in Windows 11Video from Windows 11 News (https://www.windows11news.com). Windows 11 retains the auto-hide function like in the previous versions, and it can be found in the taskbar settings. Sometimes the notification icons cache may get corrupted causing the icons to display incorrectly or distorted, and still show icons of uninstalled apps in the Taskbar corner overflow settings.When this happens, the notification icons needs to be deleted in the registry to reset and . Add the following registry key to define a default location for the Taskbar Layout Modification file: cmd /c reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ /v LayoutXMLPath /d C:\Windows\OEM . Click on Taskbar. If you want to show an icon in Taskbar notification area, click on the Arrow button to access Taskbar corner overflow menu and then click and hold the desired program icon. Press the Windows Key + I to open Settings.