Policy

Turn off automatic promotion of notification icons to the taskbar

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassUser
CategoryStart Menu and Taskbar
Supported onAt least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting allows you to turn off automatic promotion of notification icons to the taskbar. If you enable this policy setting, newly added notification icons are not temporarily promoted to the Taskbar. Users can still configure icons to be shown or hidden in the Notification Control Panel. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, newly added notification icons are temporarily promoted to the Taskbar.

Internal name
NoSystraySystemPromotion
Policy ID
34682df244bc
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\NoSystraySystemPromotionREG_DWORD
1
0

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