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 ...

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 ...

Click to viewThe Windows system tray can be so much more than a parking lot for programs you don't want cluttering up your task bar. Read on to see the five most popular tray tools readers can't live ...

In Windows 7 and 8, you could customize icons in the “system tray” to permanently show on the taskbar, or hide them away in the pop-up drawer. These options have moved in Windows 10. Previously, you ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the good old days, all keyboards had indicator LEDs that showed the on/off status of Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock. Nowadays they’re not so ubiquitous. My fancy-schmancy Logitech keyboard, ...

Windows 11 may soon show a system tray indicator notifying when your computer is connected to a VPN, allowing users wishing to browse anonymously to ensure they are connected. With your online data ...