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 ...

Click to viewAh the system tray. It's that little corner of screen real estate that holds all of your must-have, always-on utilities. They're generally not the sexiest apps you're running on your ...

For many, the system tray is simply the part of Windows that houses the clock, while occasionally spawning a pop-up window to warn of system events. But there are lots of small apps that you can ...

By the way, Windows 7 users may need to tweak their System Tray so Keyboard Leds is always visible. Find out how in my previous post on showing more icons in the System Tray.

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.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link When you share a computer with other people, privacy can be a complicated matter. Even if you trust the other users, there are some things ...

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.