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If you installed Hoard Desktop on Windows and don’t see an icon anywhere, it’s most likely just hidden in the system tray overflow area rather than missing entirely.

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Where it actually is

The Hoard icon lives in the system tray, near the clock in the bottom-right corner of your screen. Windows hides less-used tray icons behind a small ^ arrow by default — click that arrow to open the overflow area and look for Hoard there.

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Pinning it so it’s always visible

Once you’ve found it in the overflow area, you can pin it two ways:
  • Drag it out of the overflow flyout onto the visible taskbar tray.
  • Or go to Settings → Personalization → Taskbar → Other system tray icons and toggle Hoard Desktop on.

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Confirming the agent is actually running

The icon shows green when the agent is running. Click it to open the local dashboard at localhost:1993, where you can see logs, settings, and a Sync Now button — this is the fastest way to confirm the app started successfully even if you can’t immediately spot the tray icon.

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If there’s truly no icon at all

If you’ve checked the overflow area and the taskbar settings and still see nothing, the app itself may not have launched. Try opening Hoard Desktop again from the Start menu — if a setup wizard or login prompt appears, it wasn’t running before. If it still doesn’t produce a tray icon, reinstall using the full install walkthrough.

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Starting automatically at login

On first run, Hoard Desktop offers to start automatically when you log into Windows. If you accepted that, the app (and its tray icon) should appear shortly after every login without you opening anything manually — this is controlled by a registry entry Hoard Desktop adds under your user account, and you can toggle it on or off anytime from the systray menu once you’ve found the icon.

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Why this trips people up

The overflow arrow is easy to miss because Windows collapses less-used tray icons by default, and a freshly installed app usually starts out hidden there rather than pinned. It’s a Windows behavior that applies to most apps, not something specific to how Hoard Desktop installs.