are afterwards again exactly where we would like them to be:
We can thus open the familiar window again, so that clock & co. To restore the hidden system icons on the right edge as well, we enter the following at “Run”: %windir%\explorer.exe shell:::SystemIcons After that the taskbar looks much better, but there is still something missing… So you will have to wait for that as well (there will also be an announcement about the completion). The patcher will then tell you after a few seconds that there are still missing symbols to be downloaded. But beware, at first everything looks like nothing has changed and you don’t have to do anything now except wait a bit.
You could also restart Explorer or log in and out, but that way you’re always on the safe side. I’m sure you’ll think of a suitable donation.Īfter that we copy the downloaded file (don’t save it directly under Windows, because the browser lacks the most rights!) into the following three directories (with admin rights!), so that the whole thing also works for the start menu and the search: C:Windows C:_cw5n1h2txyewy C:_cw5n1h2txyewy
Hide system icons in taskbar download#
So let’s first download the required dxgi.dll (attention, no direct linking!) as a file from the release section on Github and think about how we can thank Valinet for it. I had tried that too, but it’s a silly fiddling and not a clean solution.
Hide system icons in taskbar windows 10#
Valinet has published a tool on Github that is ideally suited for this purpose, which allows you to bring back exactly this Windows 10 taskbar without having to go through the detours of an old Explorer.exe.
Sure, there is now also the possibility to vary the icon sizes, but that doesn’t solve the real problem of a fuzzy and completely unergonomic design accident. And so it is also possible to restore exactly that in Windows 11, which makes working much easier: namely the taskbar of Windows 10. At least one click more and a lot of time lost if you want to work fluently.īut they still exist, the contemporaries like Valinet with brains and a great love for the working class, who have installed Windows for more than just gambling. And instead of simply clicking on the taskbar icon of the respective instance, you first have to click on the small group icon, then slide the mouse to the desired preview and finally click on it. The teeny tiny preview looks very similar though. Let’s say we have 4 or 5 Excel files open at the same time and we just want to switch between windows to compare something. Small icons that compulsively group all the windows of an application together, even though there would be enough space, are pretty much the kinkiest innovation from Redmond. Meant is the trimmed taskbar without the possibility to really customize it to the requirements. No, I’m not an emotionless person and so I can’t sleep peacefully because of a nasty detail in Windows 11, which is not only a senseless hassle for the user by an unworldly design hipster, but which really disturbs the workflow.