Notification area inconsistencies

PS. I have never been able to find the Notification area in the registry or elsewhere. Are they available, or are they included in software and thus unavailable?

Hi, for these settings (e.g.)

you could try using Regshot (free) to
- capture Shot1 before changing one - wait..
- capture Shot2 after changing one - wait..
- compare to get an html page in your browser showing registry changes.

Unfortunately there's no guarantee the way Windows stores data in the registry is immediately accessible to humans, of course..

Now, a remaining question is, who decides which 13 icons of the total of 28 that should appear when you click the ^ icon, and what is the rationale?

You have control as per my screenshot previously. If there's a mismatch between potentially available ones in Settings and those you see in the tray, that's another matter- bad programming perhaps?

Also note you can drag 'n drop icons from the tray notification area into the ^ popup icon box and v. versa.

This may be of interest in passing (not covered by a tutorial here I can find):
Clear System Tray Cache In Windows, Fix Corrupted Tray Icons

Just FYI..... this is the tutorial here on Tenforums that resets the notification area icon cache.

Reset Notification Area Icons in Windows 10 | Tutorials

Contents of the batch file:

Code:

:: Created by: Shawn Brink
:: https://www.tenforums.com
:: Tutorial: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5662-notification-area-icons-reset-windows-10-a.html


@echo off

set regPath=HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify
set regKey1=IconStreams
set regKey2=PastIconsStream


echo.
echo The Explorer process must be temporarily killed before deleting your notification area icons cache. 
echo.
echo Please SAVE ALL OPEN WORK before continuing.
echo.
pause


echo.
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
echo.
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%a in ('Reg Query "%regpath%" /v %regkey1% ^| find /i "%regkey1%"') do goto IconStreams
echo Registry key "IconStreams" already deleted.
echo.

:verify-PastIconsStream
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%a in ('Reg Query "%regpath%" /v %regkey2% ^| find /i "%regkey2%"') do goto PastIconsStream
echo Registry key "PastIconsStream" already deleted.
echo.
goto restart

:IconStreams
reg delete "%regpath%" /f /v "%regkey1%"
goto verify-PastIconsStream

:PastIconsStream
reg delete "%regpath%" /f /v "%regkey2%"


:restart
echo.
echo.
echo You will need to restart the PC to finish resetting your notification area icons.
echo.
CHOICE /C:YN /M "Do you want to restart the PC now?"
IF ERRORLEVEL 2 goto no
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 goto yes


:no
echo.
echo.
echo Restarting explorer.... 
echo.
echo Please remember to restart the PC later to finish resetting your notification area icons.
echo.
start explorer.exe
pause
exit /B

:yes
shutdown /r /f /t 00

Hans L said:

Tomcat, thanks. I did run the .bat file, but you probably did not seem my post before you posted.

Everything now works as expected.

Regards,

Hans L

Yes, I did see it. It was mentioned it was not found here on Tenforums, so I only supplied the link for it. Glad it all worked for you.