Turn off automatic promotion of notification icons to the taskbar
- Policy ID
- NoSystraySystemPromotion
- Scope
- User Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- Start Menu and Taskbar
Description
This policy setting allows you to turn off automatic promotion of notification icons to the taskbar.
If you enable this policy setting, newly added notification icons are not temporarily promoted to the Taskbar. Users can still configure icons to be shown or hidden in the Notification Control Panel.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, newly added notification icons are temporarily promoted to the Taskbar.
Registry
UserHKEY_CURRENT_USER
- NoSystraySystemPromotionREG_DWORD