Enable or Disable Windows Update Status icon in System Tray on Windows 10
Microsoft added a new feature to the Windows 10 operating system, which warned users that a new update awaiting restart was installed. In this, a new Windows Update icon appeared in the notification area of the taskbar to inform the user that he must restart his computer or report any problem of downloading or installing wagers. Windows update. However, if you want to disable this notification, you can do it.
Enable or disable the Windows Update status bar icon
We will look at three methods that will show you how to enable or disable the Windows Update status icon in the notification area of the Windows 10 taskbar:
- Hide the status icon of Windows Update.
- Enable or disable the Windows Update status icon with the help of Windows settings.
- Enable or disable the Windows Update Status icon with the help of Registry Editor.
1) Hide Windows update status icon
This is a very simple method to follow.
Right click on the status icon of Windows Update and select Hide for the moment.
This will temporarily hide the Windows update status icon.
2) Enable or disable the Windows update status icon with the help of Windows settings
Open the Windows 10 Settings application.
Navigate to the following path: Customization> Taskbar.
In the right pane, select Select the icons to display in the taskbar.
In the list, you can either switch Windows update status to enable or disable the icon.
Toggle activates the icon while disabling disables it,
3) Enable or disable the Windows Update status icon with the help of the Registry Editor
Open the Windows registry editor.
Navigate to the following path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsUpdateUXSettings
Find the DWORD named as TrayIconVisibility.
If it is not present, create it.
- If you set its value to 0 it will be deactivate the status icon of Windows Update.
- If you delete it, it will be activate the status icon of Windows Update.
I hope you found this guide useful.