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 ...

I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...