Windows won't hide my notification area icons, even though I set them to hide

Question

In Windows 10, windows will always show all of my notification area icons. I've went into "Taskbar Settings => Select which icons appear on the taskbar", and turned off everything, but all the icons still appear anyway. How do I get them to hide under the chevron icon like they normally do?

Answer 1

Both of the following registry keys should have a DWORD called NoAutoTrayNotify. The DWORD's value should be 0.

1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Answer 2

If you are not using Windows 10 home version, we also could remove notification through the following group policy items:User > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar > remove notification abd action center