Windows 10: windows 11 system tray icons randomly hide themselves despite being set to on in taskbar

since wiping my pc, despite dragging them out of the hidden icon menu and/or setting them to "on" in the taskbar setting some apps like steam, discord or vr will randomly hide themself on next startup.

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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.

 

Taskbar Tray icon not showing

Always a good idea to read Blog posts for the known issues.

• [NEW] After upgrading to Build 22610, the “Show hidden icons” flyout in the system tray may disappear completely for some Insiders, even though it shows as “on” under Settings > Personalization > Taskbar and “Other system tray icons”. We are investigating the issue. As a workaround if you need access to the icons that would show in the “Show hidden icons” flyout, you can go right-click on taskbar to open the Taskbar settings page, navigate to the “Other system tray icons” and individuals toggle specific apps to “On” until the issue is resolved.
  

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22610 | Windows Insider Blog

It would be fixed in the future.

 

Hide an icon in the tray menu

How can i hide an Icon from the Tray menu (the arrow on the taskbar on the right bottom), i just want to remove one icon there but the program itself doesnt have a setting for that

i know that there is a "Notification Area Icons" in the old control panel but if i want to hide an icon it crashes the windows and will reset the changes, but only for that specific program, just tell me how to remove an icon from this tray menu, i know that windows 11 has that features but not 10