Hi,

There's a Settings icon on the Win11 taskbar. Clicking on it opens a window that contains stuff I could access from Nexus in Win10 using the internal "Action Center" command.

- internet connection
- bluetooth
- battery
- brightness
- sound
- airplane mode

How can I access that window from Nexus in Win11?

TIA ~ J.

What you are describing is the panel you get when you click on one of the Windows system systray icons (volume, battery, network). So, just tell the dock to display the systray and click one of those icons.

Actually, in Windows 10 those icons are displayed as standard in the Windows system tray, and ditto in the NextSTART one. At least, that is the case here. It's always possible I suppose that some Windows update changed that which I didn't get, ever since soon after 22H2 came along I configured Windows to only allow security updates, no feature ones.

Thanks, but that won't meet the need in this context.

I'm trying to configure Nexus for a user with very poor vision, and the icons in the System Tray are much too small for her to see.

The panel that clicking the Settings icon on the Taskbar displays with MUCH larger fonts and icons, partly because she has the OS set to display everything that way.

What I'm needing here is the internal command Win11 is using to open the panel, in the same way that the "Action Center" command worked in Win10.

What do you mean by "much too small"? Tray icons displayed on the dock are as large as the other dock icons (unless you enable the group option).



But that is the thing. In Windows 10 there was a single panel called "Action Center", but Microsoft split it in Windows 11 into Notification Center and Quick Settings (the latter is what you want).

There is no internal command to access Quick Settings because you access that by clicking one of the main tray icons. The "Action Center" internal command under Windows 11 opens the "Notification Center" panel (which is basically half of the old Windows 10 Action Center).

You do have different keyboard shortcuts to access each panel:

WIN+A opens Quick Settings
WIN+N opens Notifications Center

Thanks Jorge,

That's just what I needed.

The icon wasn't getting displayed in the Nexus System Tray for some reason so I wrote a PowerShell script that creates an "Open Quick Settings" Desktop shortcut configured to launch the Windows 11 'Quick Settings' panel by running a helper function to simulate the Win + A keystroke.

Then I dragged the shortcut from the Desktop onto the Nexus taskbar (where it's big enough for my client to see ) and it works just fine.

Thanks again. ~ J.

Wait, and this is important for me to know: do you mean that none of the system tray icons were being displayed in the dock despite 'Show system tray in this dock' being enabled? Or they were but you were expecting a specific icon for Quick Settings?

Under the latest versions of Windows 11 Nexus can no longer access the real tray icons due to the modifications MS made to the Windows tray, but it does display a "clone" of the real icons (the three main tray icons: battery, volume and net). Clicking any of those opens the Quick Settings panel, just as it happens if you click the same tray icons in the Windows taskbar.

Anyway, glad my keyboard shortcut tip helped to solve the problem.

Hi Jorge,



I meant I was expecting a Quick Settings icon.

When just "Show system tray in this dock" is enabled, I see a single icon. Clicking the icon displays the Windows taskbar > system tray.

When both "Show system tray in this dock" and "Always show all system tray icons" are enabled, all the system tray icons appear.

So far, so good, I think. But:



Clicking one of the battery, volume or net icons does _not_ (as you indicate) open the Quick Settings panel.

Clicking one of those icons _does_ (more or less[1]) emulate what happens when I click the same tray icons in the Windows taskbar.

But the thing is that clicking these icons on the Windows taskbar does NOT (as you indicate) open the Quick Settings panel.

As far as I can tell the only native way to open the Quick Settings panel with an icon/visual-shortcut (at least in this version of Win11[2]) is to click the "Control Center" icon on the Windows taskbar.

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Notes:

[1] For instance:

Hovering the battery icon correctly display the battery level in the icon's title, but left-clicking the icon:

1. Makes the icon jump.
2. Causes the Windows hourglass "wait" icon to appear briefly on the screen.
3. Has no other effect.

[2] This may or may not matter for debugging purposes, but I'm running ExplorerPatcher.

My current environment includes:

1. an auto-hide Nexus dock at the bottom edge
2. an auto-hide Window taskbar at the right edge (via ExplorerPatcher)

When I left-click the Nexus volume icon:

1. The Window taskbar slides out.
2. Then (after a ~ 300ms pause) the speaker volume control pane appears.
3. Then (after a ~ 800ms pause) the speaker volume control pane moves upward so its bottom edge is just above the Nexus dock.

Is that the expected behavior?

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Anyway, my little workaround script's still working (so far). Hope this helps. ~ J.

Either that is Windows 10, an older version of Windows 11 (i.e. older than 23H2 at least), or you are running Explorer Patcher?

EDIT:


Doh. I can't read lol

That explains it, including any weird behavior.