How to Customize and Tweak Your System Tray Icons in Windows 10

How to Customize and Tweak Your System Tray Icons in Windows 10 

Not all apps run in the foreground. Some sit quietly in the background, doing work for you with an icon in the Notification Area–also commonly (but apparently incorrectly) known as the System Tray. Windows helps you manage this clutter, controlling which icons appear on your taskbar and whether certain system icons appear at all.

In Windows 10

Windows automatically hides many icons in the notification area to free up space on your taskbar. To see all your notification area icons, click the up arrow to the left of your notification area icons.

You can quickly customize whether an icon appears on your taskbar or this tray by dragging and dropping it between the two areas.

On Windows 10, you can access more detailed setting by right-clicking the taskbar and selecting “Settings”.

This takes you straight to the Settings > Personalization > Taskbar screen.

Scroll down to the “Notification Area” section and click the “Select which icons appear on the taskbar” link.

Use the list here to customize which icons appear on the taskbar. Icons set to “On” will appear on the taskbar, while icons set to “Off” will be hidden behind the up arrow.

If you’d rather have Windows always show these on the taskbar, enable the “Always show all icons in the notification area” slider at the top of the screen. The up arrow will vanish and all your open notification area icons will always appear on your taskbar.

To customize the system icons–for example, the clock, volume, network, and power icons–go back to the previous pane and click the “Turn system icons on or off” link under Notification Area.

Use the options here to configure which icons are shown. The options here work differently–if you disable an icon here, it won’t appear in the notification area at all–not even behind the up arrow. If you enable a system icon here but disable it on the “Select which icons appear on the taskbar” screen, it will be shown behind the up arrow.

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Masud Rana