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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is quite trivial and non-system-imperiling, but I've wondered about it for so long I finally had to ask. Both indicate network connectivity. The first one means you're connected wirelessly; the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 11's taskbar offers extensive customization for a personalized computing experience. Users can now easily adjust icon alignment, manage app visibility, and control system tray elements.

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 ...

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 ...