The notification area or the system tray on the Taskbar of Windows 11 displays various things, including app icons, time, date, language pack, network icon, volume icon, and more.

You can clear or remove past or old icons from the notification area or system tray in Windows 11/10 by following the procedure laid down in this post.

Quick Tip: Sticking your app’s icon in Windows 10's notification area Try out any of these three apps, and odds are good that Windows 10 will soon bury the app’s icon beneath the “Show ...

Want to tweak the system tray/notification area on the taskbar in Windows 7 and 8.1? Here's how.

Right-click the network icon in notification area and select Troubleshoot problems. Then go through the wizard. Turn off your firewall—temporarily, of course—and try again.

The icons that reside in the Windows notification area (near the clock in the taskbar) convey much useful information at a glance. Is my network link live? How's my notebook's battery?

A nice little feature in WinXP is the option of hiding tray icons or as they call it "items in the notification area", so you only see the ones that are important and can hide the ones that you ...