Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tech-torial for you.
This time on working with the system tray icons and if you're not familiar with the
wording. System tray is down here at the bottom right corner of your screen generally.
Where the time and date is, and what we're going to do is look at customizing this.
You'll see there's a little arrow that has some of the other icons that aren't all showing down here.
So you may want to display all of them or only have certain ones showing down here and the others
hidden up here. So I'm going to show you how to customize this three different ways one being
very basic and quick and the other having a couple more features.
So the first option for customizing the start menu here is very easy. When you click the
arrow to show the hidden ones, you can grab something for example this icon I don't want
to be showing all the time taking up space. So I can just grab it and drag it up and it shows the
line where I can position it exactly in between everything else. So I don't have to have that
box open as I did the first time. I can just grab this and drag up and you can see it starts
it pops up the window. Same thing if I want something to be appearing down there,
I can grab that and drag it down and it just pins it in place. Even rearranging them,
I can just grab something and move the order on these if I wanted to.
The second way of getting to it is a little bit longer. You can right click on the taskbar,
anywhere where there's nothing, and go to taskbar settings. In the settings here you've got a few
options but if you scroll down, there's select which icons appear on the taskbar.
That's what we want to go to, Now other than right clicking on the taskbar, if you go
through your main settings, we'll just get out of there, through the start button to settings.
We want to go to personalization and then at the bottom here is taskbar. That takes us
to the same place. We scroll down select which icons appear on the taskbar.
Here instead of dragging them up and down you can turn them on and off. So for example this
ring central one. It's showing down here right now if I turn this off,
it disappears from the start menu. But if I click that little arrow to show hidden icons,
there it is. So I can turn this back on again and now it drops it right back
down so it's visible again. So I can do the same thing with any of these if I want to.
Also in a single swoop I could just turn this on here and it displays all of them, all the time.
So if anything new ever appears I don't have to manually go in here and turn it on. It'll just
automatically be there. I don't want that so I'm going to have that off and
i have more manual control whether I do it from here or by the drag and drop method.
Now that is just showing what is there. Some of the options are for programs like Macrium Reflect
for example. It's not down here visible or hidden it's just not there at all right now. But it is an
option here and the options only appear for things that you have installed. I do have
this program installed and this does appear down here but only when the program is running
and when the program is running I do want it to be visible so that I can see it down here.
If we go back to the screen where we were clicking on select which icons to appear. The third option
here for customizing is a little different than just moving them around or turning them
on or off. If we have a look in here turn system icons on or off. This goes beyond just the icons
for example the volume. If we look we have the volume down here right now. If I turn that off,
the volume icon disappears from there, but if we click to show hidden icons it's not here either.
It's just completely turned off from the system tray so it's not going to show there at all.
I'm going to turn it back on because I do want that. But there's other features here
that maybe you don't care to see and you don't want to be turned on all the time.
So one of them for example is the action center. A lot of people are asking questions about that
what is it and it's the little speech bubble it looks like down in the bottom right corner that
shows new notifications. So if you don't want that to appear at all you can turn that off and
as you can see it just disappeared. I'm going to turn it back on and then it's there again.
So anything that you see here you can actually
get rid of it completely so it's just not there it's not hidden or visible it's just gone.
So from the screen for the task bar there's many other things but for this video that was the main
focus and I'm gonna leave it at that. If you do have other questions about how to use windows
specifically, I'm happy to make many other videos for you on that. So just ask your questions down
in the comments below and I'm happy to answer them by text in there or by creating another
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