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Why is it faster to restore applications from System Tray than from the Taskbar?
When you click on the taskbar icon, the application first has to start and then checks, if another process of the program is running. If so, it puts the process in the foreground and terminates itself....
57
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Why is Windows reporting a battery charge with my desktop?
You can run the following command at the cmd to list devices Windows thinks are batteries:
wmic path Win32_Battery get Caption,Description,DeviceID,Name
You can also go to the Device Manager under ...
51
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Minimize app WhatsApp in system tray / notification area
I have modified the RBTray app to work with the WhatsApp desktop client.
Download WhatsappTray here
Important: DON'T start the application with admin rights unless WhatsApp is also running with ...
50
votes
Getting taskbar with clock (notification area) on second monitor with Windows 10
You can right click either taskbar, uncheck Lock all taskbars, and then drag the taskbar that includes the Notification Center onto the monitor you want it. Afterwards you can recheck the Lock all ...
28
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Disable Microsoft Edge Pop-up Notifications in Taskbar and System Tray
According to How-To Geek these advertisements can be disabled in the Windows 10 Settings:
They’re not generated by the Microsoft Edge app on your PC. Instead,
they’re generated by the Windows ...
23
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How to show the week number on the Windows system tray calendar?
I got the week numbers using the T-Clock (suggested by Mikal Madsen).
Here is what I did:
Downloaded the T-Clock (binaries) (the file T-Clock.zip)
Extracted the Zip
Ran Clock64.exe
Miscellaneous -...
11
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How to read the entire "Unauthorized changes blocked" message?
Alas that's the shortest I managed to find:
It's in the
Event Viewer
Application and Services
Microsoft
Windows
Windows Defender
Operational
The info about the program that triggered the ...
10
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How to show battery percentage on battery icon in task bar without hovering or clicking?
I developed a simple open-source alternative to solve this exact problem.
Percentage is downloadable from the GitHub repository at https://github.com/kas/percentage.
You can compile the application ...
10
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Stop the windows search bar (aka microsoft edge search bar tray icon) from auto-launching / starting at startup
My own solution:
Disable it
A. Registry
Start menu > type "registry" > right click > run Registry Editor as admin (or open it if you don't have this option)
In the input field at ...
9
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Getting taskbar with clock (notification area) on second monitor with Windows 10
Set your monitor as main monitor in Display properties, unlock the taskbar,
right click on the taskbar and select properties, you should have a section there that lets you show it on multiple monitors,...
9
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Applications disappear from notification area over time
I contacted Slack support and they said:
Unfortunately this is a really annoying bug we have in the desktop app. When a new update is installed, it's placed in its own subdirectory within the Slack ...
8
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How can I prevent an app (specifically zoom) from running in the background when I close it?
This annoys me too, so I wrote a oneline AutoHotKey script for this:
^q::run, taskkill /f /im zoom.exe
This does the following:
^q means control + q. You can change this to another shortcut if you ...
8
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How do I minimise spotify to the system tray?
The minimize option of Spotify could be checked by following settings:
Go to settings / show advanced settings and find the setting "Close button should minimize Spotify to the tray".
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Where could I find the dll/exe/process that handles the Bluetooth tray icon?
A BT icon is present in %systemroot%\system32\netshell.dll, but it looks a bit too dark. The standard tray icon is probably the one in %systemroot%\system32\btpanui.dll.
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Disable "Slow Charger" warning in Windows
See the article
How to Turn On or Off PC Charging Slowly over USB Notification in Windows 10.
The setting is found in the registry at key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\USB.
The item name ...
6
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How to show the week number on the Windows system tray calendar?
With T-clock you can get the week number to show in the system tray:
Download and unzip
Start Clock64.exe
Time Format -> Check the "Advanced clock format" box
Add 'Wi' (without quotes) somewhere in ...
6
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How can I make Windows' system tray two rows instead of one?
How can I make my System Tray icons occupy two rows?
First make sure that your taskbar is not locked.
Now you can drag the top of the taskbar to resize it.
This will increase the number of row used ...
6
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How can I get the full Windows 10 Notification messages (they are truncated)
Looked for the same thing and found this solution here:
https://www.tenforums.com/general-support/39902-any-way-review-notifications-history.html
Often you can find the notifications in the Event ...
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How to show battery percentage on battery icon in task bar without hovering or clicking?
This is not possible with the onboard tool in Windows10. But there is a 3rd party tool called BatteryBar Pro which displays an battery icon in the taskbar.
5
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Show the Google Chrome tray icon after accidentally hiding it
Go to Settings > System and check the box to "Continue running background applications when Google Chrome is closed". That should bring the icon back.
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nm-applet doesn't use appindicator
I have the same setup in Arch linux. Enlightenment 0.21 and NM. To make it work, you need to build NetworkManager from git, since the appindicator support has not been released yet, but it's in the ...
4
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Minimize app WhatsApp in system tray / notification area
Use this program: http://rbtray.sourceforge.net/.
I tested with WhatsApp and worked fine!
Updated: April 2020
Use this RBTray which is a fork of Original RBTray and It works fine.
Download
64-...
4
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How do I turn on the Volume system icon without uninstalling my audio driver?
As I remember correctly you can turn off the Realtek tray app under Taskmanager>"Autostart". I think its called "rltktrayapp".
This should disable the realtek icon and let you use the original ...
4
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Why is Windows reporting a battery charge with my desktop?
This could be because you have a UPS connected.
It does not seem to happen all the time, though. From personal experience, on one desktop, when I installed Windows 10, it seems to have detected it as ...
4
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How to dismiss OneDrive notification in Windows Defender Security Centre?
I had this exact issue and found it difficult to find an answer to as well. I was personally able to solve this by going to Add/Remove Programs and uninstalling OneDrive itself.
4
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How to minimize applications to system tray instead of taskbar?
The app RBtray works well for explorer windows. It does not work with the Whatsapp Desktop version. After installing, it allows you to minimize almost any window to the taskbar instead of the system ...
4
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Show taskbar (system tray) icons on all displays
I believe you need to open the Settings app and then go to Personalisation > Taskbar. Scroll down to Multiple displays, and flick the switch that says "Show taskbar on all displays". Check that the "...
4
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What is this arrow icon that briefly appears in the taskbar notification area?
This icon is the Windows Location Services, it comes up when an app/program/service is using the Location Services.
Same icon in the settings:
See more details in the Windows location service and ...
3
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Old pop-up notifications in Windows 10
Winaero posted a hack to enable the old Balloon Tips again:
Open Registry Editor.
Go to the following Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Create a new 32-bit ...
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left Mouse buttons don't work - System Tray
I was able to finally fix the issue from the following (run in PowerShell)
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest....
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