Windows 11 - Microphone icon in system tray

Anonymous
2022-02-25T23:56:27+00:00

Hello.

I was wondering, is there any way to completely get rid of the microphone icon on the system tray without including adding it onto the "Show hidden icons"?

It's really annoying having that.

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  1. JosephT71 9,220 Reputation points
    2023-01-27T15:21:28+00:00

    You answered the OP indeed by saying that it is not possible and next to that, you said that that was a good thing (in your opinion I assume).
    All replies you got are about that latter part that it is a good thing. We all think it is a bad thing.

    I never said that it's a good or bad thing. I just checked all my posts in this thread.

    I listed examples (such as people download pirated software that contained spyware or spouses spying on each other).

    I said that this is the law and this is how Microsoft implemented it.

    The only thing I said that Microsoft did good was that I surely hope that Microsoft would not be naive enough to implement this in such a simple way that a simple registry edit would defeat it. Because if Microsoft did something stupid like that, then we have to worry other "security" measures that are keeping my banking information, my tax information and my health information secured.

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  5. JosephT71 9,220 Reputation points
    2023-01-23T06:59:27+00:00

    You seem to be tarded or something, the world doesen't revolve murica and your privacy issues you seem to have. Stop being plain stupid and don't answer with this stupid **** if you doesen't have answer to the question, There are literally thousands other things there could be other than your first stupid thought of privacy and murica. Like the whole text is taking up the place making it impossible to click and see anything behind it. But your brain might not be able to understand that

    You are right, the world doesn't revolve around the US.

    Europe has even more stringent privacy laws than the US. In the US, only certain states have this legal restrictions, other US states don't have these restrictions. The whole EU is covered by GDPR.

    https://recordinglaw.com/eu-recording-laws/

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