This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the notifications bell icon on the taskbar corner for your account in Windows 11.
Notifications will now show as a bell in the system tray and when new notifications come through, the bell will colorize based on your system accent color. When there are no notifications and the clock is visible, the bell will be empty.
As a hidden feature in Windows 11 build 22635.3790 (Beta), you can now turn on (add) or off (remove) showing the notifications bell icon on the taskbar system tray (corner) on demand.
If you wanted to try this hidden feature now, you will need to enable it using the ViVeTool command below before the options in this tutorial are available.
vivetool /enable /id:49082522
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Contents
- Option One: Add or Remove Notifications Bell icon on Taskbar in Settings
- Option Two: Add or Remove Notifications Bell icon on Taskbar using REG file
EXAMPLE: Add or remove notifications bell icon on taskbar system tray (corner)
1 Open Settings (WIn+I).
2 Click/tap on Personalization on the left side, and click/tap on Taskbar on the right side. (see screenshot below)
3 Click/tap on Taskbar behaviors on the right side to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4)
4 Under Taskbar behaviors, check (add - default) or Uncheck (remove) Show notifications bell icon for what you want. (see screenshot below)
5 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.
2 Add Notifications Bell icon on Taskbar
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Add_notifications_bell_icon_on_taskbar.reg
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowNotificationIcon"=dword:000000013 Remove Notifications Bell icon on Taskbar
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Remove_notifications_bell_icon_on_taskbar.reg
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowNotificationIcon"=dword:000000004 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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