A tray icon is a long-lived application that sits on your computer desktop's system tray. Figure 1 shows some examples of tray icons in the authors system tray. Figure 1 Examples of tray icons in a ...

The System Tray on your Windows computer is the set of icons that appear on the right-side of your Taskbar. Also known as the ‘Notification Center,’ a system tray, most commonly, holds utilities that ...

When icons start disappearing from Windows Vista's system tray—like the networking, volume control, or time display—and you can't restore them from the standard options menus, the itch to re-install ...

The Windows System Tray is something of a necessary evil. It shows status icons for various system elements (like volume and network connections) and programs running in the background (like MozyHome ...

My laptop (an Inspiron 1100) runs XP Home. Over the last week or so, I've noticed a warning icon appearing in the system tray a few times a day. It is a yellow triangle with a black exclamation point ...

Windows has changed a lot in the last few years, for good, but some features were better in the previous versions of Windows. For example, the grouped icons in our taskbar. With the latest Windows 11 ...

It’s been a while since I’ve gathered up Windows tips for you. I know, I’ve been remiss. So this week I’ve got a great tip on fine-tuning Windows Vista and 7’s AutoPlay settings, and I help a reader ...

In Windows 2000 the icon for switching keyboard layouts was in the system tray. In Windows XP, it's a taskbar toolbar which has a few problems.<BR><BR>First, with the classic theme, it adds a pixel or ...

Microsoft has released build 22616 for Windows Insiders, it mainly contains fixes and improvements and no new features. The company also warned that the window is closing to switch channels. Microsoft ...

When your network, volume, clock, or other icons are missing from the system tray, returning them takes just a few seconds. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...