If you want to disable Windows Update Status icon in the system tray on Windows 11 or Windows 10, here is how to do that. It is possible to enable or disable this icon using Windows Settings ...

So, dark mode users who never fiddled with their icon settings after last ... head to Settings → System → Software updates → System update and tap the Check for updates button.

When you hover your mouse pointer over the Windows Update icon in the Taskbar ... An unsupported version of Windows will no longer receive software updates from Windows Update.