{"id":970,"date":"2007-02-13T14:05:32","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T08:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2023-05-06T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T14:25:11","slug":"clear-customize-notifications-tray-items-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/clear-customize-notifications-tray-items-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clear Customize Notifications (Taskbar Corner Overflow) Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over time, many invalid or obsolete taskbar notification icons may appear on the “Customize notifications” or the “Select which icons appear on the Taskbar” page with duplicate, invalid or missing icons.<\/p>\n

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Customize Notifications Dialog with obsolete entries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Windows 11, the setting is called “Taskbar corner overflow.” It’s located under Personalization \u2192 Taskbar, in the Settings app.<\/p>\n

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You may also see duplicate entries on that screen. It’s caused when a program updates to a new version, causing an additional entry to appear under the “Taskbar corner overflow” or “Customize notifications” settings page. For instance, this issue often happens with the Telegram Desktop app.<\/p>\n

This article describes how to clear the past and current items list in the Customize Notifications dialog in Windows. Information and the script here apply to all versions of Windows, including Windows 10 and Windows 11.<\/p>\n

Clear Customize Notifications (Taskbar corner overflow) Icons<\/h2>\n

Method 1: Using a Script<\/h3>\n

Here is a VBScript to quickly clear the customize notification icons.<\/p>\n

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  1. Close all your running programs.<\/li>\n
  2. Download clear_notification_taskbar_overflow_icons.vbs<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Run the script file. It clears Taskbar overflow icons (aka, Customize Notifications items) and restarts the Explorer shell automatically.
    \n\"resetHere is what the customize notifications dialog (“Select which icons appear on the Taskbar”) looks like after clearing the obsolete entries.<\/p>\n
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    Customize Notifications Dialog after clearing. Programs will re-add their icons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    You can see that the blank icons on the left are also fixed. (Compare Snagit<\/b> icons<\/i>.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    On Windows 11: Before running the script<\/h4>\n

    \"reset<\/p>\n

    After running the script<\/h4>\n

    \"reset<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    Contents of the VBScript<\/h4>\n