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Center: a huge, consolidated command center, full of quick

controls and notifications, that’s described at the end of this
chapter.

Tip
You can drag system-tray icons around to rearrange them—not just these starter icons, but any that
you install, as described next. A vertical insertion-point line appears to show you where the icon
will go when you release the mouse.

Keyboard Control

You have complete keyboard control over the system tray. Press +B to
highlight the button. Then press the arrow keys to “walk through” the

other icons. Press the space bar to “click” whatever icon is highlighted,
opening its menu. (Press the Menu key, if you have one, to “right-click” the
icon.)

Reinstating the Hidden Icons

Thank you, Windows, for sparing us from Creeping Iconitus. Thank you for
corralling all non-Windows system-tray icons into a single bubble of their

own (Figure 2-25, left).

But what if you want one of those inferior icons to appear in the system
tray? What if you don’t want Windows to hide it away in the pop-up

window?

No big whoop. Just drag it out of the “hidden” corral and back onto the
taskbar. You can even drag it horizontally to reposition it. Or you can do it
the long way: Open the Taskbar pane of Settings. See Figure 2-26.

From this settings page, you have two relevant options:

Select which icons appear on the taskbar. You get a list of all
those secondary, usually hidden status icons. You can turn them on
individually (“on” means appearing on the system tray).