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 ...

Keeping all system tray icons visible helps me stay aware of what’s running in the background. Visible icons aren’t cluttered if screen space allows and background apps are limited. System tray icons ...

Windows user Love Underlined has an old laptop running Vista and can't afford to sacrifice system memory to desktop customizing programs with a lot of bells and whistles. Instead, she creates a simple ...

Reader Dennis has a laptop running Windows 7. He noticed recently that the System Tray icons for power and volume have gone missing, and he’s wondering how to get them back. For starters, I’d check to ...

If you want to reset Taskbar System Tray Icons in Windows 11 to default, this guide will help you do it. On earlier versions of Windows up to Windows 10, the icons at the bottom-right of the taskbar ...

In Windows 7 and 8, you could customize icons in the “system tray” to permanently show on the taskbar, or hide them away in the pop-up drawer. These options have moved in Windows 10. Previously, you ...

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday updates are usually important when it comes to security but lack any exciting changes. That's mostly the case this month, but there are some improvements that ship with the ...

I don't know know what this "remote desktop sharing" is, but a lot of system tray programs work well as services. Use Firedaemon w/it's GUI to make a service for those programs you want to hide, and ...

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 ...