Hit the Windows key to open the Start menu and click on the Settings gear icon on the left side.How to remove taskbar icons in the system tray The Windows 10 system tray can be customized the way you want, you can keep the tray icons you like and hide them if you don’t, we aren’t talking about hiding inside the taskbar itself, but they can be removed straight away and this guide shows you exactly how. Is your Windows 10’s Notification area filled up with too many app icons? Trying to remove the icons in the system tray on the taskbar or want to show only some specific icons in the tray and remove the rest? It’s easy to hide or remove taskbar icons in the system tray on your Windows 10 computer, you can configure which ones to show and which ones to hide, all you need is to change a quick setting on Windows 10.