Most of my tray icons cannot be "shown" anymore after the Windows 11 Moment 2 Update. I use Nircmd to hide the Windows taskbar and have DF taskbars on both of my monitors. It's been working fine until Windows 11 Moment 2 Update installed the other day. Now that little "up" arrow next to the tray icons. The "up" arrow you click on to show all the other tray icons, is gone.
The only tray icons that are there are network and volume.

Edit:
I just now updated to DF v10 beta 22 and the issue is still there.

Microsoft made some changes to the taskbar in the KB5022913 update, for me, not only DF's multi-monitor taskbar only shows the system tray icon from Windows itself, but also all previously working ways of making windows taskbar fully transparent (clear) become invalid.

Same thing for me. The only tray icons that show now are Windows network and sound. All app tray icons have disappeared.

HI,
i'm also missing the Notification area system tray on my second screen,other than the clock and network icons
it's one of the main reason i use DF
i hope they can fix it as i never had a problem with avg and 9.9
i'm a avg/avst reseller using cloadcare service for all my clients and myself
other than the normal start up delay to deal with, we never had any reports of problems
using DF and AVG/AVAST
But not having a fully working Notification area-system tray is a real pain

With die new Windows 11 February Update I have the same Problem with the new Bigger Task Symbols on the 2nd Screen. Problem with Version 9.9 and also with Beta 10
See Screenshot

Thank you for the update,

I have the same problem with system tray up arrow missing. Also, my task view is blank, just a gray screen when I press Windows key + tab. It doesn't show me thumbnails of any of my open apps. My productivity is shattered.

I hope you find a solution soon

Having the same problem with te system tray missing from the secndary monitor after the latest W11 update. Hope you come up with something fast. I uninstalled the update but could not get the system tray back on the secondary monitor.

It's been a few weeks since this ssue started. Really hoping for a solution soon, really cramping my gaming and production by adding extra steps. Cmbersom.

Same happening to me

Same here!

Same here (Windows 11 Version 22H2 build 22621.1413, and DF Pro version 10.0 Beta 23).

After BETA 23 update tray icons will show in DisplayFusion taskbar, but it seems has problem with LibreHardwareMonitor, it seems LibreHardwareMonitor tray icon will cause DisplayFusion taskbar adds more of it as time goes.

Hi, just updated from 22>23 and i now have Notification area system tray on my second screen once again (woot)
i'll test with my 3rd screen wireless screen later on and will report back
but the 23 fix seems to be working great
i'll report back in next 24/48hrs with hopefully good news after the wireless testing

Thanks

I have upgraded to beta 23 and it is a step in the right direction, thanks.
But I have autohide taskbar on all my taskbars and then on the DF taskbars the upward pointing arrow disappears regularly. This is not the case when autohide is not enabled on all taskbars.
Also there are some icons always visible on my windows taskbar that are not visible on the DF taskbars.

Thanks all, you have made my day. Back to a better gaming experiance.

Hi, after updating to Beta 23 most of my Tray icons are back but some are still missing. Maybe you can reproduce it on your end.
On my second bar I'm missing Bluetooth Devices, NVIDIA Settings, Power Toys, iCloud and MicroSIP.

Edit: After rebooting iCloud is back. MicroSIP does also show up but the icon won't update.

When the main windows taskbar is not hidden all works well.
The missing taskbar icon is from "hwinfo" Edit: also "Nvidia control panel". Other icons work!
Thank you

Three icons not duplicated are ASUS AI Suite III, Nvidia Control Panel, Blue Tooth icon. After installation I performed hard restart. Still missing items.

Neither of my DF taskbars (on main screen or secondary screen) have that up arrow to show the rest of my tray icons. I still only have the network and volume icons with this new beta.

I've found another problem with DF Beta 23. Since Microsoft broke previous ways to make the Windows taskbar transparent, I was looking for a solution, and after upgrading to DF Beta 23 I've found one. It uses ViveTool to disable feature 26008830 STTest, after reboot, apps like TranslucentTB can toggle the taskbar transparent on the fly again.
But the DF taskbar will behave oddly, unlike Beta 22 not show any app tray icon other than mic/internet/sound, but only shows little tray icons. The space for tray icons is dead set, and won't auto-expand like before, also the show hidden icons button is missing like in Beta 22.
If using ViveTool to enable feature 26008830 STTest and reboot, DF Beta 23 taskbar will be back to normal except for the problem with LibreHardwareMonitor, and the taskbar won't be able to become transparent again. (for my finding, only Start11 can make the taskbar transparent successfully on Windows 11 build 22621.1413, but I don't want to have one paid app that only does one such little feature)

Same here. Task icons are gone. Help appreciated.

Windows version 22H2 22621.143
Missing the following icons in system tray: ASUS AI SuiteIII, Bluetooth, EPSON T-4800 Printer, Argus Monitor,NVIDIA Control Panel,Microsoft Money Delux.

While b23 wasn't perfect, b24 is worse for me. There are no app icons in the systray at all and every time the main taskbar auto-hides/shows the DF taskbar seems to reload. (blank out and redraw)
I attached the debug info for b24 before I went back to b23.
Beta23 had only a couple small issues for me. The overflow button for extra icons is missing when the primary taskbar is auto-hidden and the DF taskbar will show extra icons if the primary taskbar is set to show only some icons from a specific program.
I attached a video of both of those issues. The red 0 and white jet are from MSI Afterburner and can be hidden separately in Windows.
Windows 11 22H2 22621.1413 with infamous KB5023706
Start11 1.4.2.1 j302

EDIT: Beta 26 works better than beta 23 for me, now.

How do I sign up for the beta guys? I bought Display Fusion because I heard I would be able to have systray icons on my secondary which I wanted to give me more control while running full screen games and apps on my primary, unfortunately on the current release that's not possible. If there is any way I could access the new build that would be great. Not sure if it makes any difference but I am on a steam license.

In the DF Settings window, Options tab... you can set the Update Check to include Beta versions. For me, the most recent beta isn't the best... so if you want to download a specific beta, then you use this website shown in this image... and scroll down a bit.

Ok so I finally got the little "up arrow" back so I could see the rest of my tray icons... until I rebooted. After reboot the up arrow is gone again.
DF 10 beta 24
Windows 11 22H2 - Build 22621.1413
When I click on the taskbar it will randomly flash, show the arrow, flash again and arrow again is gone. It looks as if the DF bar is crashing and re-loading continuously.

I went back to "DisplayFusionSetup-10.0-Beta21c.exe" and it works now. All icons on second montor are back...

Updated to Beta 24 and rebooted.
No changes for me compared to Beta 23 except the MicroSIP icon sometimes randomly changing status color.
Windows 11 22H2 (Build 22621.1413)

Hello! 10.0 Beta 24 is working worse than Beta 23. I have the Windows main monitor taskbar with auto hide because on Windows 11, if you don't have it with auto hide, both Windows and Display Fusion taskbars are shown (could you please fix that too? )

Beta 24 is working worse because with the Windows auto-hide taskbar, every time I press the Windows key, the taskbars get crazy and the computer takes a while to respond. This doesn't happen with Beta 23.

The Beta 23 fixes took some tray icons to the taskbar back, but it's still lacking the "up arrow" to see the hidden tray icons.

Windows 11 Version 22H2 (22621.1413)

So a summary of things that aren't working as expected:
- The DisplayFusion taskbar should override completely the Windows taskbar so they don't "fight" and you don't need to set the Windows taskbar to autohide
- Hidden tray icons are still missing
- Beta 24 introduces some problems when the windows taskbar comes back from auto-hide and it makes both taskbars unresponsive for a while.

Thank you!

Beta24 is for sure regresion compared to 23, update with care

No, just DisplayFusion.

Are beta's not accessible via Steam? I see no beta tab under Library > Display Fusion > Properties. (Which is where beta versions are usually accessed via Steam)

I've never used Steam except for the initial install. Use DF itself to download updates or use this very website to download specific beta versions.

This might help others having the same issue I had with a missing "Show Hidden Icons" arrow.
I have StartAllBack installed, and under teh Taskbar option I had "Use enhanced classic taskbar" selected.
That made the arrow vanish, unchecking it allowed for the return of the arrow.

"Too many cooks spoil the broth!"

I have the "Steam" edition.
In Display Fusion, under "Options" and "Update Check" I selected "Check for new Beta (newer, unstable) versions" and that allows DisplayFusion to install the latest beta versions.
The only issue I have had is being reminded by Steam that there is a new, non-beta version, but that's easy enough to ignore.

Hope this helps!

After installing Beta 25 and performing a reboot no changes for me compared to Beta 23 and 24.
Icons for PowerToys, NVIDIA Settings and Bluetooth are still missing. MicroSIP doesn't update correctly.

Interestingly when I used Awake from PowerToys recently the Icon showed up correctly.

The only things I see missing is that it would be cool to override completely the Windows taskbar, so it shouldn't be hidden (if you don't set it to auto-hide you would have a double taskbar), and as a minor thing to improve: the tray arrow makes the windows taskbar to appear from below in order to open the hidden icons box.

Thank you for the improvements!

Apart from some missing icons on de DF taskbar compared to the windows taskbar (fi Hwinfo) beta 25 is fine for me and I can hide the taskbars again and it seems more fluent when not reloading them.
I have a program iconviewer installed to extract icons from .exe files and it seems to me there is a problem when the icon size in the .exe file is not 16x16. I guess you guys know more about that than I do.

Build 25 works fine on my side.
The only blip really is the missing overflow arrow icon when using StartAllBack - disabling taskbar enhancements in StartAllBack fixes things and that's all good. The StartAllBack taskbar enhancements are not better or worse than DisplayFusion's, so I can live with it being off.

Thank you Owen and all the devs over there!

Hi all !

I made a fresh install of Windows 11 (22H2 22621.525) and before my reinstallation DF work fine. But now i have the same problem in the notification area. On my first screen the notification area is ok, but on my second screen y only have Network and Sound icons.
I'll try DF Beta 25 and 21, with and without StarAllBack taskbar enhancement (v 3.6.3) and i have always the same result.

The DF update did fix my tray icons (thanks!) BUT the task view function, windows key + tab, still does not work, just shows a blank grey screen, per my screenshot. Sadly, I must disable DF again until this is fixed.

DisplayFusion Pro 10.0 Beta 25
Windows 11 (22H2) [22621.1485]

Just installed the latest DF Pr0 10.0 beta version 26. Still the same, system tray not fully duplicated on monitor 2. This could be as good as it gets. Not completely happy but what I have is better than nothing. Not getting full value. I do thank the developers for giving a trying to repair the Windows 11 break.

I'll just try DF Beta 26 and no luck for me, no icons in system tray except mic, network and sound.

Thanks

Thank you! Hwinfo is back with beta26

Beta 26 is the best for me since beta 23. Have all desired icons and the overflow button works with auto-hide. Last remaining issue is extremely small... MSI Afterburner can hide some icons on the normal taskbar, but for some reason the DF taskbar shows the hidden ones. I think it's because some icons will go away if they have no data and when they reappear, the DF taskbar unhides all of them. I have to nail down reproducibility better.

After updating to Beta 27 today and still not having the chevron present I had to come digging to see if it was just me. Thank you @Carl77! I do use StartAllBack, and following your suggestion I was able to get the chevron back!

@Owen Nice if you could reproduce the symptom. For the moment i'm in vacation, but i'll try the new beta when i'm a home.

Thanks for your time.

My pleasure!
To be honest, it was someone else mentioning apps that change how the taskbar works that got me digging.

I was not able to create a program that has the same behavior that MSI Afterburner showed in the video I attached in post #30. MSI Afterburner shows a persistant tray icon that I tell Windows to hide. It also has an FPS icon it shows when RTSS detects a program worth monitoring the FPS of. When this red number icon appears in the normal taskbar, both(all?) tray icons appear in the DF taskbar.

The only issue I could uncover with my custom program was that the DF taskbar does not like "NotifyIcons" that instantiate and dispose to show/hide themselves. The DF taskbar might show it once but then never again. I don't know if it is common for a program to do this at all... I was just coming up with random testcases trying to blindly replicate MSI Afterburner.

Hmmm...I booted up today and the chevron was once again missing. I updated StartAllBack to v3.6.3 (it was at 3.6.2 I believe). Still no chevron. I ran my AHK script to show the Windows taskbar and viola the chevron came back. I have an AHK script that hides the Windows taskbar on startup (attached for anyone's review). I know I have a lot of things competing to hook into explorer.exe, but I do wish that DF had an official option to select for hiding the Windows Taskbar when opting to use the DF Taskbar.

I'm at home today, and i can't download the beta because the link isn't visible when i click on Download.
Can you help me to download the Beta 27 ?
EDIT 1 :
Yesterday Steam let me install an update but nothing change, and this morning at the first boot everything seems to be good. I have all my icons in the notification area, but i can't see the version of DF, only that information :

And this morning i have the link to download the beta version. I'll give it a try.
EDIT 2 :
Now i have the version of DF in the application DF 10.0.1 Beta 1 and my icons are in place !
EDIT 3 :
This morning, i have all icons in the notication area and more than i want ! The network and sound are doubled.

Thank and have a nice day !

I've attached my debug file relate do the task view function just showing a blank grey screen. Appreciate you devs!

I know that the team is busting their caboose to get this fixed, I just wish to thank you for your efforts. I am ignotent as to the innerworkings as to how this application works but seems to be a problem with each application that is loaded. Please let me know If there is any additional information that I can contribute to the effort. The worst thing that could happen for DF is for W11 to allow the system tray on all monitors as it used to be. Thanks.

Version 10.1 Beta 3 Getting close only have Bluetooth, Nvidia Control Panel, ASUS AI 3, Argus Monitor left that do not show on second monitor. It appears you are winding down on getting this 100%. Good work getting this far.