System icons tray disappears when logging between Windows 10 and 11
Hello! My company is using roaming profiles. Everything works fine on Windows 11, but after logging out and then using the same roaming profile to log into a Windows 10 PC, system icons from the notification area are missing (Clock, Volume, Network…)
I can return the icons by going into Taskbar settings, Turn system icons on or off and enabling what i need, but I cannot reasonably do this for thousands of devices every time a user logs off of windows 11 and back on Win 10
Is there a way to automate the process to enable these icons? Some registry values to change?
Thank you.
Hi Ahmed, thanks for reaching out.
So I don’t think the below keys are doing anything as I don’t have a settings key and my defaults was empty
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams – Settings
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Defaults – {24CCB8A6-C45A-477D-B940-3382B9225668}
However I exported the HKCU\\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3 – Settings key before and after changing the setting to show the system icons and there were two characters different. Importing the HKCU\\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3 – Settings key and restarting explorer.exe worked for me and I am going to find a clean way to get this to run on logon and test it. out of curiosity do you see explorer.exe flashing as it restarts on logon?
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