During this time, most notifications should not be sent or shown. Exceptions include feedback that the user would expect to see in response to a user action, such as when he or she plugs in a USB device or prints a document. API specifics of regarding quiet time are discussed later in this topic. The remaining sections in this topic outline the basic procedure to follow to display a notification from your application to the user.
To display a notification, you must have an icon in the notification area. In certain cases, such as Microsoft Communicator or battery level, that icon will already be present. In many other cases, however, you will add an icon to the notification area only as long as is needed to show the notification.
When an icon is added to the notification area on Windows 7, it is added to the overflow section of the notification area by default. This area contains notification area icons that are active, but not visible in the notification area. Only the user can promote an icon from the overflow to the notification area, although in certain circumstances the system can temporarily promote an icon into the notification area as a short preview under one minute.
The user should have the final say on which icons they want to see in their notification area. Before installing a non-transient icon in the notification area, the user should be asked for permission. They should also be given the option normally though its shortcut menu to remove the icon from the notification area.
Icons in the notification area can have a tooltip. The tooltip can be either a standard tooltip preferred or an application-drawn, pop-up UI. While a tooltip is not required, it is recommended. You can rearrange icons that appear in the notification area—just drag an icon to a different spot.
Windows 11 Windows 10 More Customize what you see You can change which icons and notifications appear in the taskbar notification area, or even hide some.
To see hidden icons Select the Show hidden icons arrow next to the notification area. To change how icons and notifications appear Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar and select Taskbar settings. Under Taskbar corner icons : Select On for any icons you want to see on the taskbar. To hide an icon in the taskbar corner overflow Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar and select Taskbar settings. Select Taskbar corner overflow. Find the app you want to hide and select Off.
Customize what you see You can change which icons and notifications appear in the notification area, or even hide some. To see hidden icons Tap or click the Show hidden icons arrow next to the notification area. To change how icons and notifications appear Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar, then tap or click Taskbar settings. Its efficiency and convenience has encouraged developers to give it other purposes, such as launching programs and executing commands.
Unfortunately over time, these additions made the notification area too large and noisy, and confused its purpose with the other desktop access points. Windows XP addressed the scale problem by making the area collapsible and hiding the unused icons. Windows Vista addressed the noise by removing unnecessary, annoying notifications. Windows 7 has gone a step further by focusing the notification on its original purpose of being a notification source.
Most icons are hidden by default in Windows 7, but can be promoted to the notification area manually, by the user. To keep users in control of their desktops, there is no way for your program to perform this promotion automatically.
Windows still displays notifications for hidden icons by promoting them temporarily. In addition, Windows 7 supports many features directly in the taskbar buttons. Specifically, you can use:. In short, if your program has desktop presence, take full advantage of the Windows 7 taskbar button features for these purposes. Keep the notification area icons focused on displaying notifications and status.
Keeping users in control extends beyond using the notification area correctly. Depending on the nature of your icon, you may want to let users do the following:. Although it's a good idea to provide most of these settings on the icon's context menu, the program's default experience should be suitable for most users. Don't turn everything on by default and expect users to turn features off.
Rather, turn the important features on by default, and let users enable additional features as desired. For the temporary event status pattern, display the icon while the event is happening. For all other patterns, display the icon when the program, feature, or process is running and the icon is relevant unless the user has cleared its Display icon in notification area option for more information, see Context menus.
Most icons are hidden by default in Windows 7, but can be promoted to the notification area by the user. Don't display icons meant for administrators to standard users. Record the information in the Windows event log. In this example, Outlook uses an e-mail feature icon for a temporary notification source and its application icon for the minimized application.
Choose an easily recognizable icon design. Prefer icons with unique outlines over square or rectangular shaped icons. Keep the designs simple prefer symbols over realistic images. Apply the other Aero-style icon guidelines as well. Use icon variations or overlays to indicate status or status changes. Use icon variations to show changes in quantities or strengths. For other types of status, use the following standard overlays. Use only a single overlay, and locate it bottom-right for consistency.
Avoid swaths of pure red, yellow, and green in your base icons. To avoid confusion, reserve these colors to communicate status. If your branding uses these colors, consider using muted tones for your base notification area icons. For progressive escalation , use icons with a progressively more emphatic appearance as the situation becomes more urgent.
In these examples, the appearance of the battery icon becomes more emphatic as the urgency increases. Don't change status too frequently. Notification area icons shouldn't appear noisy, unstable, or demand attention. The eye is sensitive to changes in the peripheral field of vision, so status changes need to be subtle. Tick Show taskbar on all displays. Let me know if this helps.
If not, can you explain more about what you want to accomplish? How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Hi Rey, So I see that I did not state my request clearly. Hi SlurpinenDurpin, I understand your situation now.
Basically the taskbar may enable this to all monitors, at the same time, for the notification, it will only appear to the primary display. Thus it's a good idea though to have an option to have the notification on all monitors, but they don't have that option yet. I hope you're doing okay there despite the worldwide outbreak.
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