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<\/p>\nHow do I remove the virtual touchpad icon from the system tray? The “Virtual Touchpad” option is missing from the Settings app?<\/p>\n
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Usually we can turn virtual touchpad on or off via opening the Settings app<\/a> and browsing to In this tutorial we’ll show you an easy fix to restore the missing “Virtual Touchpad” option in Settings on Windows 11, so you can then remove Virtual Touchpad icon from the taskbar.<\/p>\n How to Fix: Unable to remove the Virtual Touchpad icon in Windows 11<\/strong><\/p>\n That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How do I remove the virtual touchpad icon from the system tray? The “Virtual Touchpad” option is missing from the Settings app? Usually we can turn virtual touchpad on or off via opening the Settings app and browsing to Personalization -> Taskbar. However, sometimes you might find the “Virtual Touchpad” option is not there, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4713],"tags":[5377,5376,5375],"class_list":["post-20789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-remove-virtual-touchpad-from-taskbar","tag-unable-remove-virtual-touchpad","tag-virtual-touchpad-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20789"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20803,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789\/revisions\/20803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Personalization -> Taskbar<\/code>. However, sometimes you might find the “Virtual Touchpad” option is not there, and so you’re unable to remove it from system tray.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/virtual-touchpad-setting-missing.png\")
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer<\/code>. Right-click the Explorer<\/strong> key on the left-side panel, and choose New<\/strong> -> Key<\/strong>.\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/new-key.png\")
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\n<\/li>\nPersonalization -> Taskbar<\/code>, the “Virtual Touchpad<\/strong>” option will show up under the “System tray icons” section, and you can toggle it Off to remove the Virtual Touchpad icon from the taskbar.\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/virtual-touchpad-option-in-settings.png\")
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