You can usually access the settings for those individual background apps by right-clicking the system tray icon and choosing 'Settings,' 'Preferences,' or the like. Unfortunately, there's not a central area for those types of settings. But for some apps, like the Skype app we mentioned earlier, you can explore the app's settings and see if there's an option for turning off notifications.įor apps that notify you by displaying a badge or symbol on a system tray icon, you'll need to explore the apps settings to see whether you can turn those notifications off. Some apps flash their button at you if you try to close an unsaved document or if they need to install an add-on or update themselves. The trick is figuring out where to do that.įor apps that notify you by flashing a taskbar button, there may be nothing you can do. If you can live without notifications from that app, you may be able to turn them off. At the users request, a new function for showing the MS Windows 11, 10, taskbar From version 5.44 there are several options to show or hide icons and.
Open the zip folder / archive in Windows 11. And it applies whether the notification is a badge on the icon or a balloon notification. Simple example of auto-hide desktop icons on MS Windows 11 1. This applies whether the app notifies you by flashing a regular taskbar button or a system tray icon. Now you have a decision to make: you can let it keep notifying you, bringing up the taskbar every time, or you can turn that app's notifications off. Hopefully, by this point, you've figured out which app is causing the problem.
