Release v1.6: Per-User Control 🫠

When converting the whole thing into a service, I somehow managed to forget that not all users might actually desire automatic promotion... 😅 So this version adds a per-user registry value in HKCU\SOFTWARE\Notification Icon Promoter and allows the user to control the behavior through that. It will default to enabled for new users but they can control the behavior by running the Notification Icon Promoter app from the start menu.

1. Download the installer NotifyIconPromote_Setup.exe and run it.
2. Once the installer has finished, restart the system to finalize the install.
   • This is required to start up the per-user service that the installer created.
3. Note the following:
   • The service runs hidden in the background with no visual indicators.
   • Run the Notification Icon Promoter app to enable/disable the automatic promotion of new icons.
     • Note that any existing icons must be controlled through Windows:
       Settings -> Personalization -> Taskbar -> Other system tray icons

Full Changelog: 1.5...1.6

• NotifyIconPromote_Standalone.zip contains the standalone non-service based application.
• Updated 2025-07-17 to remove the dependency on the Visual C++ Redistributables.

Release v1.5: Per-User Service!

1. Download the installer NotifyIconPromoteSetup.exe and run it.
2. Once the installer has finished, restart the system to finalize the install.
   • This is required to start up the per-user service that the installer created.
3. Note the following:
   • The service runs hidden in the background with no visual indicators.
   • It can be controlled through services.msc -> Notification Icon Promoter.
   • Run the application manually to perform a one-time promotion of any new icons.
     • Note that any existing icons must be controlled through Windows:
       Settings -> Personalization -> Taskbar -> Other system tray icons

Full Changelog: 1.2...1.5

• NotifyIconPromote_Standalone.zip contains the standalone non-service based application.

Release v1.2

1. Download NotifyIconPromote.exe and put it a folder of your choice.
   • The executable is standalone and does not create any additional files.
2. Launch the executable for it to do its thing.
   • The executable runs hidden in the background with no visual indicators.
3. Note the following:
   • To close the background process, use Task Manager to end the Notification Icon Promoter task (the NotifyIconPromote.exe process).
   • If you want it to start it automatically with Windows, the easiest way is to open shell:Startup (type it in the address field of the File Explorer) and drop a shortcut to the executable in there.

Full Changelog: 1.1...1.2