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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft restored the redesigned system tray in Windows 11 preview builds from the Dev Channel. Back then, we called this redesigned a "half-improved and half-crippled" job due ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Windows taskbar is an essential component of Windows 11. It acts as a platform for multitasking and quick access to applications and system notifications. The taskbar allows you to pin your ...

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 ...