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 ...

Fi isn’t showing up in the System tray then you can’t connect to the internet. But there is a simple trick that you can use ...

A few months back I explained how Windows 7 users can use built-in tools to create a system-repair disc–an important step to take given that few PCs these days come with one. A reader who uses Vista ...

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 ...

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, at least, giving you fingertip access ...

Although toast notifications and the weather widget are technically not part of the notification area, I decided to include them because notifications are directly connected with the bell icon, and ...

I was downloading some eps of 5th gear last night and I noticed an unusual icon in my system tray. I could not get it to do anything if I right or left ...

If you’re the type of person who manually starts or stops a specific service in Windows 10, then you want to check out a tool called ServiceTray. It is a free tool that allows you to start and stop a ...

Remove the Windows patches you don't want to install from the update list to prevent the system-tray alert from appearing. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

In the previous posting, I covered the installation of Process Explorer and setting things up so that it runs automatically at startup time with its icon permanently displayed in the system tray ...