GUID specifies the globally unique identifier (GUID) of an icon to be shown in the notification area at the far right of the taskbar.

By setting the Path and GUID elements of the PromotedIcon1 component, you can configure another icon to be visible in the notification area. This icon will appear in place of the Action Center icon.

To select the icon to be visible, you must:

The GUID for the icon is contained in the application. The NOTIFYICONDATA shell structure contains the guidItem. For more information, see the MSDN topic: NOTIFYICONDATA. For third-party applications, contact your application provider to find out if your application uses this structure and to obtain the GUID.

Values

GUID

Specifies the GUID of an icon to be shown in the notification area.

This string type does not support empty elements. Do not create an empty value for this setting.

Valid Configuration Passes

specialize

Parent Hierarchy

Applies To

For a list of the Windows® editions and architectures that this component supports, see Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup.

XML Example

The following XML output shows how to promote a new notification icon to be visible in place of the Action Center icon.

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  <PromotedIcon1>
	<Path>%PROGRAMFILES%\Fabrikam\Application1.exe</Path>
	<GUID>{d8742dcb-3e6a-4b3c-b3fe-374623cdcf06}</GUID>
  </PromotedIcon1>

See Also

Concepts

PromotedIcon1

Other Resources

NOTIFYICONDATA Structure