Until Windows 7 came along, it was challenging at best to control what did and didn’t appear in the System Tray. It wasn’t uncommon to see a dozen or more icons littered down there.

How to Restore Missing System-Tray Icons Reader Dennis has a laptop running Windows 7. He noticed recently that the system tray icons for power and volume have gone missing, and he’s wondering ...

In Windows 7 and 8, you could customize icons in the “system tray” to permanently show on the taskbar, or hide them away in the pop-up drawer. These options have moved in Windows 10.

The system tray icon for Microsoft Security Essentials allows easy access to the anti-virus application's user interface in Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. If the icon doesn't Chron Logo ...

Similarly, if you right-click the HideIt icon in the task bar, you can select which windows or applications to restore, or restore everything at once. Best of all, it's completely free.

System Tray icons do not open in Windows 11/10. If the Notification Area or System Tray icons do not open or work in Windows 11/10 then follow these suggestions to resolve the problem: ...

In the long litany of Windows Explorer bugs, here's one I haven't seen anyone else report. I currently have two dozen icons that run at startup in my system tray. (Those are only the IMPORTANT ...