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.

In Windows 7/8, to remove an icon from the notification area, you open Taskbar and Start Menu Properties > Appearance and Personalization > Taskbar and Start Menu. Under the Taskbar tab, click on ...

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 ...

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.

If you don’t want it there, removing it into the notification window is easy. Just click on the Dropbox icon, drag it towards the tiny arrow pointing upwards until the pop-up window appears, and ...

The default for most notification area icons is "Hide when inactive." To always hide or always show an icon, select it and choose Hide or Show on the drop-down menu that appears. Windows 7's ...

The updated network icon in Windows 11 build 25247 is a work in progress, so expect Microsoft to polish it a bit more before unveiling it to Windows Insiders (add support for Wi-Fi, for example).

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 ...

When your network, volume, clock, or other icons are missing from the system tray, ... and clicked the Notification Area tab to recheck this option under "System icons," but it was grayed out.