Windows 10: Quick Way to Workaround System Tray Icons Hiding Themselves

In recent versions of Windows, some of the icons in the tray hide themselves and there is no way to stop this from happening, as there used to be. All of the published fixes I have seen do not resolve the issue.While there doesn't seem to be a way to override this behavior, I discovered by accident the other day that all you have to do to get the missing icons back is to click the overflow arrow, then drag the icon down. It is the same as going into the settings and sliding the "OFF" to "ON" - but much quicker.UPDATE - sorry everyone - this doesn't fix the issue. It refers to the other anno

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Permanently hiding system tray icon

Well that would be my last solution. There's gotta be a way to just hide system tray icons? And not normally hiding but literally hiding

 

How to recover hidden icon in System tray on Windows 10?

Hi Callum,

As you are facing issues with un-hiding the icon in System tray, we will help you with this issue.

Do let us know which is the icon you have deleted from the system tray for better assistance?

I suggest you to try the below steps to add the icons to Taskbar and check if it helps.

• Press Windows key, click on Settings.
• Click on System> Notifications & actions.
• Click on Select which icons appear on taskbar (to select the icons that appear on Taskbar)
  and also click on Turn system icons on or off

Hope it helps. If the issue still persists, let us know with brief description for further assistance. We will be happy to help you.

Thank you.

 

SOLVED hide system tray arrow icon

hi there, I look for a method to hide the arrow icon of system tray, which opens the list of all icons. I have several customization tools like winaero and 7+ taskbar tweaker but none of it helps. the mentioned arrow is pointed on this pic



please any ideas ? any info much appreciated