NotifyIconPromote

This is a background application that auto-promotes all newly registered and unconfigured notification icons to be visible by default in the Windows 11 notification area.

This somewhat emulates the behavior of Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar from prior Windows versions, but also allows for individual apps to be toggled if so desired.

Notes

• Only affects unconfigured applications; does not touch notification icons the user have already modified the behaviour of.
• No performance impact to speak of as the code is using registry change notifications to only wake when a change is detected.
• Makes use of Efficiency Mode and thread background processing mode to further ensure the app never interferes with any foreground activity.
• Requires an up-to-date copy of Windows 11. Does not work on Windows 11 v21H1

Installation

1. Go to the Releases page.
2. Download NotifyIconPromote.exe and put it a folder of your choice.
   • The executable is standalone and does not create any additional files.
3. Launch the executable for it to do its thing.
   • The executable runs hidden in the background with no visual indicators.
4. Note the following:
   • To close the background process, use Task Manager to end the Notification Icon Promoter task (the NotifyIconPromote.exe process).
   • If you want it to start it automatically with Windows, the easiest way is to open shell:Startup (type it in the address field of the File Explorer) and drop a shortcut to the executable in there.

Credits

• Inspired by Liub0myr's win11-all-icons-on-taskbar.