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 ...

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.

Its system tray icon lets you access programs or items added to the quick launch toolbar created by you. You can see an example of a custom toolbar added to Windows 11 in the image above.

For those of you who tolerate MS OSs.Have your system tray icons been breeding? I'm currently looking at 18. Yup one eight. Where did the blighters come from? What's the record (please list)?FYI ...

In the long litany of Windows Explorer bugs, here's one I haven't seen anyone else report. I currently have two dozen icons that run at startup in my system tray. (Those are only the IMPORTANT ...

Learn how to tweak Vista and Windows 7 AutoPlay settings, restore missing system tray icons in Windows 7.

Windows only: In addition to reordering your Windows taskbar items, previously mentioned Taskbar Shuffle can now reorder your system tray icons as well. As much as I liked previous versions of ...

Learn how to enable or disable Windows Update Status icon in the Notification Area of the Windows 11/10 taskbar using Registry, Settings, etc.

Hiding or showing icons in the system tray. Screenshot: Windows To pin your own applications to the taskbar, launch a program and then right-click on its taskbar icon and choose Pin to taskbar.

Apps should no longer show up with the incorrect icon under Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Other system tray icons.

In and of itself, the system tray icon is a gateway to useful information, even without the main Process Explorer window. The default Process Explorer icon is a dynamic graph of recent cpu usage.