Most Windows 10 users can hardly imagine anything under the term ” badges “. As badges Microsoft called graphs or changes to icons that are located in the Windows 10 taskbar. A good example of ” badges ” is the Outlook program icon , which changes when there are unread emails.
By default, the Outlook icon in the Windows 10 taskbar looks like this.
On the other hand, if the “Badges display function” is activated, the same task bar looks like this.
As you can see, a letter symbol has now been integrated into the Outlook symbol , which indicates unread e-mails. This ” badges ” display is usually useful, but there may be reasons to deactivate these icon changes . For this reason, we would like to briefly explain below how you can easily change these badges settings in Windows 10 .
To do this, you first call the Windows settings using the known key combination
Windows key & “I” and then give the word
Badges
in the search box, as you can see below.
Then you choose the point
Show badges on the taskbar
and in the following window you choose the point on the left side
Taskbar
Now you can find the desired badges setting relatively far below with the name
Show badges on taskbar buttons
Now you have the possibility to activate or deactivate the badges display . Incidentally, these changes become active immediately and the icons in the Windows taskbar are adjusted immediately.
You can also control these badges settings via the registry . We will explain how this works in another article on the topic of ” badges “.
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