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 ...

Linux only: Open-source app AllTray docks any application to the system tray that does not have a native tray icon. AllTray works in KDE, Gnome, Xfce, Fluxbox, and WindowMaker, and can tuck any ...

Hey all, I need to make a fairly simple system tray application. I've downloaded a framework for tray apps and it works great, but I need to add a feature. I'd like to have a notification like MSN ...

Trayy is an open-source Windows application that enhances the system tray by allowing users to integrate web applications, shortcuts, and other utilities directly into the tray for quick access.

Do you hate the fact that every time you close Skype, it quits instead of running in the background? Then this post will guide on how to minimize Skype to System Tray in Windows 11/10. When you are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Great for PCs that lack a hard-drive LED, free utility TrayStatus can also display the status of various keyboard keys. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features ...

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 ...

Last year, Microsoft began testing a new change to the System Tray on the Taskbar on Windows 11 that aimed to clean up the area with a more simplified date and time layout. The new layout removed the ...