Hide or Show Windows Security Notification Area Icon in Windows 10  

@dabour,

The Windows Security icon should be showing for you then.

If wanted, you could try doing a repair install of Windows 10 to fix this without losing anything.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

dabour said:

I think this is the only option left for me. I will try to do it in the next few weeks as my schedule is really tight now.

As always you been for kind, thanks a lot for your help.

Please let us know how it went.

That's great news.

groucho said:

Your Option Five above says that when the value of the HideSystray is 0 it is Enabled and when the value is 1 it is disabled. IMHO this is confusing to users who wish to check this out manually. The user does not know whether you mean that the displaying of the Notification Area icon or its hiding is enabled or disabled. It might be better to say that if you enter 0 the Windows Security icon is displayed and if you enter 1 it is hidden. Thanks.

Hello,

Yeah, it can get a bit confusing if not carefully paid attention to.

In binary:

0 = off
1 = on

Using the logic above on HideSystray, you would have:

0 = "HideSystray" off to enable
1 = "HideSystray" on to disable.

trevo said:

Since I uninstalled Kaspersky and reverted to Defender, I have been unable to get the Icon to appear; this reg file finally did the job, so thanks Brink, much appreciated.