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A triangle to the left of the visible notification icons displays the hidden notification icons. Unlike Windows Vista and Windows XP, the hidden icons are displayed in a window above the taskbar, instead of on the taskbar. Icons can be dragged between this window and the notification area. Windows 7 desktop displayed through Peek
In older versions of Windows the notification area icons were limited to 16 colors. Windows Me added support for high color notification area icons. Starting with Windows XP, the user can choose to always show or hide some icons, or hide them if inactive for some time. A button allows the user to reveal all the icons.
An Easter egg that displays the names of all the volcanoes in the United States can be found in the 3D Text screensaver on all versions of Microsoft Windows prior to Windows XP by setting the text to display to "Volcano". [14] In Windows NT 3.5, setting the text to "I love NT" shows the names of the developers.
There's no reason to waste time looking through your Start menu to launch Desktop Gold when you can have the shortcut ready and waiting for you right on your desktop.
The remaining icon overlay handlers are not used. [2] Many applications such as versioning software like TortoiseSVN and cloud storage synchronization software like Nextcloud, Dropbox, and OneDrive add their own icon overlay handlers to the Registry upon installation. Below is a table of shell icon overlay identifiers by software.
16-bit applications can no longer display their icon on the taskbar when running. The taskbar instead shows the icon for NTVDM.exe, which is the 32-bit host process for running 16-bit applications. Always on Top for the taskbar is mandatory in Windows 7; in previous versions of Windows this was possible to disable.
Specifies whether to use Windows XP/Vista or Classic 9x/2000/Me styles on the taskbar and start menu (in versions of Windows prior to 7). Whether the taskbar should Auto-Hide. Whether to show the clock in the notification area. Allows the user to manage the tray icons.
The option to show or hide Windows shell's tray icons (Only third-party icons can be hidden or shown) All settings and shortcuts in the taskbar's context menu (Only a shortcut to the taskbar settings area of the Settings app is available.) [7] The network and audio flyouts have been consolidated into a new settings flyout