If you’d like to display a clean taskbar in Windows 11/10, you can hide the Notification area, which appears on the right side of the Windows taskbar. For doing this, you will have to use the Group Policy Editor.
Hide Windows Notification Area in Windows 11/10
To hide the notification area or the system tray which appears on the right side of your Windows taskbar, type gpedit.msc in the Start search box and hit Enter to open the Group Policy Editor.
Navigate to User configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar.
Now double-click on the entry Hide the notification area Select Enabled button, click Apply > OK.
This setting affects the notification area (previously called the “system tray”) on the taskbar.
Description: The notification area is located at the far right end of the task bar and includes the icons for current notifications and the system clock.
If this setting is enabled, the user’s entire notification area, including the notification icons, is hidden. The taskbar displays only the Start button, taskbar buttons, custom toolbars (if any), and the system clock.
If this setting is disabled or is not configured, the notification area is shown in the user’s taskbar.
Note: Enabling this setting overrides the “Turn off notification area cleanup” setting, because if the notification area is hidden, there is no need to clean up the icons.
You can also check out a freeware called SysTray Hider which lets you do the same easily.
This post will show you how to turn System Tray Icons On or Off in Taskbar of Windows 11
That’s it!
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Thanks, but with the shortcut method to hide the clock (Right click System Clock > Customize notification icons > Turn system icons on/off), there appears to be no similar shortcut to show the clock, because it’s in the clock area where Customize notification icons is found!