How to Show All System Tray Icons in Windows 11 (Like Windows 10)

You want the old Windows 10 style “Always show all icons in the system tray” toggle, but in Windows 11 that option kinda got nerfed. Microsoft changed the way the taskbar handles tray icons, so now you have to manually toggle apps on/off one by one.

Here’s how you can show all system tray icons in Windows 11 (or at least get super close):

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✅ Method 1: Settings (manual toggles)

1. Right-click the taskbar → select Taskbar settings.
2. Scroll down to Other system tray icons.
3. You’ll see a list of apps → flip the switches On for all the icons you want.
   👉 Downside: no single “show all” toggle like Windows 10.

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✅ Method 2: Drag & drop from the overflow

1. Click the little “^” arrow in your system tray.
2. Drag any hidden icon down onto the taskbar so it’s always visible.
3. Repeat for each app you want permanently shown.

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✅ Method 3: Registry Hack (brings back “Always show all icons”)

⚠️ Do this only if you’re comfortable editing the registry.

1. Press Win + R → type regedit → hit Enter.
2. Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
3. Look for a key related to EnableAutoTray. If it’s not there, create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value named EnableAutoTray.
4. Set its value to 0.
5. Restart Explorer (Ctrl+Shift+Esc → Task Manager → Restart Explorer).

This should force all tray icons to always show, similar to the old behavior.

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👉 But heads-up: Windows 11 updates sometimes reset or ignore this tweak, since Microsoft wants you to use the new per-app toggle system.

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I’ll whip you up a .reg file so you don’t gotta dig through the registry yourself.

Here’s the content you can copy into Notepad and save as ShowAllTrayIcons.reg (make sure the file extension is .reg not .txt):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"EnableAutoTray"=dword:00000000

How to use:

1. Open Notepad → paste that code.
2. Save As → set File type to All Files → name it ShowAllTrayIcons.reg.
3. Double-click the file you just made → hit Yes when Windows asks if you want to add it to the registry.
4. Restart Explorer (or just reboot your PC).

After that, all system tray icons should show automatically, just like in Windows 10.

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