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Zoom: How to Stop Zoom From Minimizing to the System Tray

Mel HawthorneDecember 31, 2020 Comments (7)

One of the most annoying features of Skype historically, was that if you pressed the “x” icon in the top-right corner to close the program, it minimized to the system tray instead of exiting like every other program. It was only relatively recently that Microsoft added an option to Skype that allowed you to change this behavior to align with every other Windows app.

Frustratingly, Zoom is even more unaligned with the standard Windows user experience in this regard. By default, if you press the “x” icon, then Zoom minimizes to the system tray. You can change this behavior; however, you can only change it to minimize to the taskbar instead. This is an improvement, as it makes it easier to notice that Zoom didn’t close, but it still doesn’t fix the problem and properly align with the standard Windows user experience by actually exiting the program.

To change the behavior of the “x” icon to minimize Zoom to the taskbar rather than the system try you need to go into Zoom’s settings. You can access the settings by clicking on your user icon in the top-right corner, then clicking “Settings”.

To access Zoom’s settings, click on your user icon, then on “Settings” in the dropdown menu.

Once in the settings, untick the second checkbox in the “General” tab, labelled “When closed, minimize window to the notification area instead of the task bar”. Once this option is unticked, Zoom will minimise to the taskbar instead of the system tray when the “x” icon is clicked.

In the “General” tab of the settings, untick the second option, labelled “When closed, minimize window to the notification area instead of the task bar”.

To actually be able to close Zoom, you need to right-click on Zoom in the taskbar or the system tray, then click on “Quit Zoom”.

To actually close Zoom, right-click on it in the taskbar or system tray, then click “Quit Zoom”.

Categories: Internet

Author Mel Hawthorne

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Comments

  1. Peter says:
    May 25, 2022 at 5:07 pm

    For me, Zoom won’t exit while I’m signed in on the app. Signing out does allow clicking on the ‘X’ to exit the app.

  2. user1 says:
    April 29, 2022 at 7:07 pm

    Not only is it annoying, but even with the solution offered here, Zoom doesn’t quit. It hides in the background, sending gawd knows what to gawd knows where.

  3. Tyler says:
    April 11, 2022 at 1:15 pm

    when i click “X” i want to sink zoom in all instances. how can i do this?

  4. Ada says:
    March 4, 2022 at 7:06 am

    it doesn’t work. I did this but my zoom
    is still minimising

  5. Dennis Bareis says:
    October 1, 2021 at 4:34 pm

    Like every other program not.

    The way zoom and the billions of similar programs work is much better, but I’m all for choice and most if not all such programs make it an option.

  6. Mark says:
    August 7, 2021 at 3:33 pm

    I can only agree that this is incredibly annoying.

  7. gemo says:
    May 20, 2021 at 6:48 pm

    this was helpful! tysm

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