Enable/Disable Windows 10 “tray” notification area icons
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/19
It looks like they reorganised the way you can enable/disable the Windows Notification Area icons (often called “Icon Tray”) in Windows 10.
Up until Windows 8.1, you could run this:
%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Options_RunDLL 5
There you would end up editing the application specific icons.
As of Windows 10, you need to:
- Run
%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Options_RunDLL 6 - Click on “Select which icons appear on the task bar” (or Dutch “Selecteren welke pictogrammen op de taakbalk worden weergegeven”)
So both the index changed, and you need an extra click to get at the application specific icons.
Further more, you can now only turn them on or off, where up until Windows 8.1, you could also choose only show notifications. I think on means only show notifications as for instance the Java Updater with a setting on on Windows 10 disappears after a Java Update has been installed, whereas on Windows 8.1 it would stay unless you switched from on to only show notifications.
The above commands are based on [WayBack] Create Direct Shortcut for “Notification Area Icons” in Windows Vista and Later – AskVG and
–jeroen
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