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. Anonymous
    2023-01-26T20:34:45+00:00

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    Bad design is still a flaw. And since it is breaking European privacy standards for software which say that the user has the final say in what the Operating system should display that icon is bad design.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-25T09:44:22+00:00

    This is complete and utter BS. The mic icon is ALWAYS on when using 3rd party audio mixing software, which a huge percentage of users do and so it is completely useless for the purpose you say it is stuck on for.

    Way to double down on something you have no clue about. US privacy laws do not apply to any software aesthetic changes what so ever regardless of what country the software is being used in. If someone wanted to secretly use my mic to record my environment they would have to have an extremely good reason because just gaining access to a PC with that much control is a major pain in the **** and if they are willing to go that far, it would be no problem to hide the use of it.

    Seriously who are your enemies that you're willing to agree and put up with being told "no you can't change that because you are an idiot who can't be trusted with your own protection"?

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  4. Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points
    2022-06-17T06:25:21+00:00

    Why have the mic on all the time?

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  5. JosephT71 9,220 Reputation points
    2022-06-17T05:34:19+00:00

    Disable the mic in the sound settings when not using it and the icon goes away.

    You completely missed the point of this thread --- they wanted to keep the mic but hide the icon.

    Which is impossible because it is illegal in many states in the US to secretly record a conversation without the other person's permission. So Microsoft made sure that there is no way to hide the mic icon. Therefore I put these sentences in big fonts.

    So if the mic icon is there, then the end-user is either using the mic themselves or Cortana (or similar some other software is listening in the background). Or the enable "listen to this device" because they read it somewhere on some forum.

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