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 ...

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 ...

The System Tray on your Windows computer is the set of icons that appear on the right-side of your Taskbar. Also known as the ‘Notification Center,’ a system tray, most commonly, holds utilities that ...

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 ...

I don't know know what this "remote desktop sharing" is, but a lot of system tray programs work well as services. Use Firedaemon w/it's GUI to make a service for those programs you want to hide, and ...

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 ...

Is it normal for the context menu to take 5 seconds to load when one right-clicks the Nvidia system tray icon? What is it loading?

Windows 11/10 displays the Windows Defender icon in the Notification Area of your taskbar. In this post, we will see how to hide, disable or remove the Windows Defender icon from the System Tray when ...