Turn off automatic promotion of notification icons to the taskbar

If you enable this setting, newly added notification icons will not be temporarily promoted to the Taskbar. Users can still configure icons to be shown or hidden in the Notification Control Panel.

If you disable this setting or do not configure it, newly added notification icons will sometimes be temporarily promoted to the Taskbar.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Value NameNoSystraySystemPromotion
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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