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 ...

I realized how messy my Windows system tray was. Windows’ default hide icons feature kept some mess out of my sight, but still, everything felt disorganized, and fixing it manually felt like a big ...

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 ...

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, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

For those of you who tolerate MS OSs.<P>Have your system tray icons been breeding? I'm currently looking at 18. Yup one eight. Where did the blighters come from? What's the record (please list)?<P>FYI ...

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 ...

Are there any utils that will remove a program from the task bar and place it's icon in the system tray?<BR><BR>I've got HP's network scanjet util running on our machines, but the users close it to ...

Windows only: In addition to reordering your Windows taskbar items, previously mentioned Taskbar Shuffle can now reorder your system tray icons as well. As much as I liked previous versions of Taskbar ...

Illustration: Richard Downs Want to see the winner of the most bloated system tray award? It weighs in with 30 icons and counting. This month I’ll tell you how to shake the system tray free of ...