Questions tagged [notification-area]
The notification area is the part of the Windows User Interface that displays application icons in the task bar.
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Where is the Icon Tray (notification area) registry stored?
I'm in need to know where the position and order of the Icons from the System Tray are stored. (notification area)
I'm talking about these ones:
I've been trying to go through some reg files and my ...
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How to disable "USB Device not recognized" notifications?
The notification says something like:
"USB Device not recognized: One of the devices attached to this
computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it."
and it's very annoying. It ...
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Windows 10 system tray icon (Skype) keeps getting hidden
I want to be able to always see the Skype icon in the system tray. I know of the setting in the task manager config (choose which icons should show, and I choose Skype to always show), but every few ...
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How to eliminate Focus Assist notification?
Focus Assist is my default. Always.
I'm trying to reduce the notifications in the Action Center to the minimum possible.
How can I remove this notification for good:
To clarify, I want Focus Assist ...
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Slack: show taskbar badge unread-messages icon only for single workspace
In slack desktop, when you're signed in to several workspaces, how do you make the taskbar unread-messages notification icon (the blue circle) appear only for one given workspace?
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How to limit the amount of Windows updates
I'm working with a Windows-10 environment, and I have the habit to install updates directly after I get the notification.
However, this is getting really annoying: I just had the situation where I ...
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How to use a keyboard shortcut to raise application from system tray
I am trying to create a keyboard shortcut to raise an application that is running in the system tray (keepassx).
I have tried xdotool but it does not work. xdotool finds the windows that match the ...
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Hide BitLocker "Unlock Drive" Notifications in Windows 10?
In Windows 10, when you mount an BitLocker encrypted drive (vhd in my case), Windows issues a notification prompting you to unlock the drive. Is there a way to turn off this particular notification? ...
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Xfce4 + AwesomeWM. Part of notification area in xfce panel is yanked by AwesomeWM notification area
I'm using Xfce4 with AwesomeWM (tiling window manager) - xfce takes care of updating, lets me quickly configure new monitor setups (dual head) and so on, while awesome is being awesome at managing ...
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Enable PPTP notification-area icon in Windows 8?
Is there a way to enable icon in taskbar tray of Windows 8 displaying whether PPTP is currently connected or not?
It occassionally happens that PPTP connection drops and icon showing connection ...
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Windows 8 multi-monitor notification area [duplicate]
Is there any way to allow the notification area to be displayed on both taskbars in a multimonitor configuration?
It's currently limited to only appearing on the primary monitor and there doesn't ...
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The tooltip for the taskbar clock won't show up in Windows 7
When I hover the mouse pointer over the clock in the Windows 7 taskbar, the tooltip flashes for a millisecond and then disappears. Sometimes it disappears so quickly that I won't even notice.
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Windows 7: Notification area settings are lost on restart [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does my Tray Icon's Behavior occasionally reset Windows 7?
Recently noticed that my icons settings in notification area are getting reset on system restart.
For ...
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System tray icons too big
I recently changed my computer, I have now a laptop "Dell Inspiron 13 5378 2-in-1", and in this computer, with Windows 10, the icons in system tray are too big, more especifically, they have more ...
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Notification tray count is wrong
The notification tray icon shows the wrong count:
As a temporary workaround to the annoyance of this I thought I would disable the count. This menu option has no effect at all:
Is this a known ...
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Where could I find the dll/exe/process that handles the Bluetooth tray icon?
Where could I find the exe/process/dll that handles this colored tray icon of Bluetooth tray icon.
I am very customized person, so I want to customize it, break it open and replace those resources ...
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How do I disable popups in PhraseExpress?
Every time I launch a program with admin privileges, PhraseExpress shows a notification like this:
This can be very annoying. Since I don't want to run PhraseExpress with admin rights, is there a way ...
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Is there a way to move taskbar items to the system tray?
In Windows XP, is there a utility that will let me move taskbar items to the system tray? I've seen "minimize to tray" type utilities but I'm talking about for maximized applications.
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Why does the wifi icon in my systray look like this?
On my brand new Windows 7 PC, the WiFi icon in my system tray looks funny. Here it is:
On my last Windows 7 PC, black lines bordered all the white bars and looked very uniform and normal. This one ...
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Show hidden icons button out of place
I recently got a Yoga 2 Pro (3200x1800) resolution and it's mostly been great except for one aggravating but minor issue: the "show hidden icons" button on the taskbar isn't vertically centered and ...
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Windows Defender Security Center
after the creator update I have an annoying problem regarding the windows defender security center and the relative notification.
I have some files that defender marks as trojan / virus, they are ...
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Notification and Action center is gone
It took me ages to find this setting. But as you can see in the picture, I don't have the Notification (Action) center icon on my Taskbar. And in a Settings app it appears grayed, though ON. I still ...
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left Mouse buttons don't work - System Tray
I have a weird problem (running Windows 10).
My left mouse button doesn't work on icons in the system tray and my right mouse button doesn't work in the toolbar. So for instance if I left click on ...
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Gnu Emacs : how to minimize it to system tray?
i've been searching around for a way to minimize to tray or hide Emacs app, i don't really want to close it every time i finish using it nor i want to have it's icon showing on taskbar and "alt-tab" ...
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Remove unwanted VAIO Control Center icons from system tray
I'm somewhat bothered by the needless presence of a scroll lock indicator and a touchpad toggle in my system tray (since Windows 7 also known as a notification area).
Specifically, the two ugly icons ...
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Restart explorer.exe in Windows 7 while keeping all icons in the system tray?
Sometimes when you are prompted to restart the computer (or log off), you can get away with just restarting the explorer process. I'm sure you know what i'm talking about.
The problem is, that when ...
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Why does an instance of a program sometimes not merge with his icon on the taskbar?
Allow me to explain by showing you this picture:
As you can see, it is a picture of my Windows 7 taskbar, no modifications made.
Now let's take a look at the right 3 active Icons. You have Navicat (...
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Batch file close/kill a System Tray/systray program
I use a program for hosting multiple forms.
Each form leaves a systray program of said program. In Processing they all use the same same.
But Window wise/mouse over name while in tray they use the ...
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Systray stretching out for no reason
I just restored my Windows install back to a previous state with Macrium. For some odd reason it is now stretching out my systray up to halfway across my taskbar. Any ideas why? No it did not do this ...
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Windows 7 power schemes selection in system tray - number of options
When I click the battery symbol in Winodws 7 tray, it offers only the last to used power schemes. To use a different one, you have to clik again to open some window, where you can select from more...
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Dropbox icon unhides itself from taskbar notification area
Around 50% of the time when I reboot my computer, I think after an automatic application update, Dropbox quite pretentiously promotes itself to an "always visible" icon which means that it ...
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Speaker icon in Notification Area has a tooltip but isn't visible
After starting my computer, I noticed that the gap between network connection and language should be speaker icon:
When I move the mouse over the space the hint shows that this is a speaker icon and ...
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How do I disable notification balloons completely in XP?
I am running VM Window XP and notification balloon in the task bar accumulates so much so I want to get rid of it.
I tried setting it "Hide inactive icons" but still getting notification balloon. I ...
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Add send/receive to Outlook systray icon?
Is it possible to add a send/receive action to the Outlook 2007 system tray right-click context menu? It's a little annoying to have to open the whole interface just to run this simple action manually....
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How do I minimise Yahoo Messenger and have it just appear in the system tray?
How do I minimise Yahoo Messenger and have it just appear in the system tray?
It used to be standard behaviour that when I minimised Yahoo Messenger it wouldn't minimise but go to the system tray.. ...
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Is there any way to restore icons from the system tray after Explorer.exe crashes? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Restart explorer.exe in Windows 7 while keeping all icons in the system tray?
Is there any way to restore icons from the system tray after Explorer.exe crashes?
I tried PS ...
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How can I show/hide programs using in tray wmctrl?
I'm trying to make my onboard hide/show with a keyboard shortcut (I know ironic, please don't ask why). However I couldn't find a way to do it in their manual, it only shows programs that are windowed ...
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Remove "Safely remove hardware and eject media" tray icon
First of all, this is not a duplicate of this question because that discussion took a detour. In there, the guy basically asked "how to get rid of the tray icon" and people answered "...
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Customize Windows to show "toast" notifications in different spots or filter them
I'm wondering if there's a way to customize windows-10 notifications. I've looked around for modifying the toast location and found:
Where is the Icon Tray (notification area) registry stored?
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How to hide (but keep enabled) Action Center icon from the taskbar
I am using Windows 10, and normally in recent Windows versions, I can hide system icons as well as app icons in the notification area (previously known as system tray). A little triangle button ...
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How to have Safe Remove icon in the system tray in Windows 10?
In my installation there is no Safe Remove icon in the system tray. It is not hidden, simply there is no such icon. (I checked in "Notifications & actions" and there is no such icon in the list, ...
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System tray button stuck
Basically, sometimes when i right click an icon in the system tray and select any button, the button will stay there, a little bit transparent. It happened to various applications so i do not think it ...
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How Can I Get the Tomboy System Tray Icon Back?
I'm running Linux Mint 17 with MATE, and while I have Tomboy (and can open it with no problem), it no longer adds a icon to the system tray when it's open. I also can't find an applet for it when I do ...
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Windows 8.1 WLAN icon at taskbar not responding occasionally
I am using Windows 8.1. A strange problem i am facing from long ago since Windows 7. I have Intel Wireless N-1000 WLAN Adapter in laptop. Its working great and satisfactory for using WiFI networks. ...
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Can't see the power options icon in the notification area
I've formatted my windows 8 64 bit laptop, and encountered the following issue:
The power options icon won't show up. I tried adding it manually, but it shows the massage "This notification icon is ...
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Start Win7 systray focus on the left?
Prior to Windows 7 the system tray started focus from the left: WinEscTabTab
Windows 7 adds Win+B as an alternative, but starts focus from the right.
Is there a way to change it to start focus on ...
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"Safely Remove Hardware" icon keeps reverting to "Only show notifications"
I have the 'Safely Remove Hardware' tray icon set to 'Show icon and notifications' to save a mouse click when removing a USB device but every few weeks the setting reverts to 'Only show notifications'....
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Speeding up tray icon hide
"Hide inactive icons" is checked. But the arrow to slide the hidden icons in/out of view moves very slowly ( >2 seconds to reveal, about the same to hide them again ). Is there any way to tweak the ...
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Check for new mail without Outlook
Is there an application that will allow me to be notified of new email received via Exchange, without having Outlook started? Basically I want to know when I receive new email without having Outlook ...
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Is there a way to group and hide tray/notification area icons in Ubuntu?
tray icons take a lot of space. is there a solution that is similar to windows 7, where the tray icons are grouped together and hidden?
any other way to reduce the number of tray icons? one way i can ...
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