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 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 ...

When icons start disappearing from Windows Vista's system tray—like the networking, volume control, or time display—and you can't restore them from the standard options menus, the itch to re-install ...

The system tray icon for Microsoft Security Essentials allows easy access to the anti-virus application's user interface in Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. If the icon doesn't appear in 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 ...

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 some reason the system tray in my laptop has completely disappeared:<BR> View image: http://img43.exs.cx/img43/8797/tray1vs.jpg <BR><BR>It's been this way for ...

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 ...