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 ...

If you want to disable Windows Update Status icon in the system tray on Windows 11 or Windows 10, here is how to do that. It is possible to enable or disable this icon using Windows Settings, and ...

The small symbols that light up in the Windows taskbar are not just decoration, they are often the only warning that your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...