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Why does my Tray Icon's Behavior occasionally reset Windows 7?
I'm fine with having most of my tray icons hidden, however I want the Outlook Notification envelop to show at all times when I have new messages. Its important for me to know when I have unread ...
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Security Essentials tray icon disapeared?
I've been running Microsoft Security Essentials for quite a while. And I've just noticed that the tray icon has disapeared. I've checked every setting in the program, Windows Action Center claims that ...
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Outlook Unread Messages System Tray Envelope Icon Not Showing when System Tray is minimized
My coworker wants to see a little "new mail" letter icon whenever he has new mail in Outlook.
I went to
Tools -> Options -> Preferences -> E-mail Options -> Advanced E-mail
Options -> Show an ...
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“Safely Remove Hardware” icon keeps reverting to “Only show notifications”
I have the 'Safely Remove Hardware' tray icon set to 'Show icon and notifications' to save a mouse click when removing a USB device but every few weeks the setting reverts to 'Only show ...
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How to remove icon of a running program from system tray?
I have a program whose icon I need to completely remove from system tray.
I want the program to run in the background and to be able to bring it up with some defined hotkey.
All programs I found ...
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System tray icons no longer display at Windows start up [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Icons disappearing from notification area (systray) under WinXP
Recently Windows XP has begun not showing any system tray icons at start up. I used to have about 6 ...
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How can I customize the Windows 7 clock to show full date/time?
I'm currently using Windows 7 Ultimate. I've seen that some people have full date/time info in their system tray clock like this:
However, my current system tray clock is shown like this:
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Speeding up tray icon hide
"Hide inactive icons" is checked. But the arrow to slide the hidden icons in/out of view moves very slowly ( >2 seconds to reveal, about the same to hide them again ). Is there any way to tweak the ...
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How do I get the Apache Tomcat System Icons on another account?
I installed 2 separate instances of Apache Tomcat 7 under my user profile account.
This gives me the apache status as a system icon.
If I log off and log in as the local administrator account, ...
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Restart explorer.exe in Windows 7 while keeping all icons in the system tray?
Sometimes when you are prompted to restart the computer (or log off), you can get away with just restarting the explorer process. I'm sure you know what i'm talking about.
The problem is, that when ...
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Minimize Firefox to system tray in Windows
I wish to minimize Firefox to system tray. Is that possible?
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Check Box -> Show icon in taskbar notification area when connected is missing in windows 7
Please see the picture below ,
this is on my network adapters properties :
where is the General Tab In this Network adapter ?
Also, I couldn't find that check box for Display Network Icon on ...
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How do I minimise Yahoo Messenger and have it just appear in the system tray?
How do I minimise Yahoo Messenger and have it just appear in the system tray?
It used to be standard behaviour that when I minimised Yahoo Messenger it wouldn't minimise but go to the system tray.. ...
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I need a tool to minimize programs to the System Tray [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to put a program in system tray in Windows 7?
I need a tool to minimize programs to the System Tray.
I used Power Menu, but it is not working anymore on Windows 7. ...
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How to add a running application to the Windows 7 System Tray? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to put a program in system tray in Windows 7?
I want to save some space and move minimized running applications to the System Tray. Is this possible?
Note: I am ...
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'View your active networks' icon in system tray windows 7
To view the window, I went to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Center. I want to create a system tray shortcut to view the same. How can I create a such one ?
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Why does an instance of a program sometimes not merge with his icon on the taskbar?
Allow me to explain by showing you this picture:
As you can see, it is a picture of my Windows 7 taskbar, no modifications made.
Now let's take a look at the right 3 active Icons. You have Navicat ...
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Make tray icon always show for all profiles in Windows 7
I'm setting up a Windows 7 machine that will sit out in the open and be shared by a lot of people. I have added a shortcut to the all users start menu to run a program that sits in the system tray. ...
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Send Outlook Messenger to System Tray in Windows 7
How to send the Outlook Messenger to system tray of Microsoft Windows 7 when its is minimized ?
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Red cross on my volume icon and front panel audio not accepting headphones or speaker
The specifications of my computer:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4700 @2.60GHz
Motherboard: MSI G31TM-P21 (MS-7529)
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 32-bit
I cannot remove the red cross ...
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Maximise minimized outlook from system tray
If outlook 2010 is minimized to system tray, is there any shortcut key for maximizing or switching to outlook from system tray. WIN XP
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Gnome system tray icons disappeared after installing gtk+3, 'Add to Panel -> Notification area' does not restore
After installing gtk+3 the system tray icons disappeared but when I hover over that area. I can still see the tooltips for my Update Manager (Synaptic package manager), Firewall, Dropbox, Network ...
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System Tray Network icon marked with red X, while all connections are fine!
On my Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 machine, the system tray network icon is showing with a big red X over it, even though all the network adapters and wireless dongles are working perfectly.
For ...
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trouble registering PS Tray Factory - Organizing tray icons
The software, PS Tray Factory has been good for letting me show or hide tray icons and save profile for which are showing and which are hidden. But now it says "Trial Period Expired", and I can't ...
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Shrunken icons in system tray and quicklaunch
I tend to customize my my Windows metrics settings. E.g. I prefer to shrink the height of the title bar, menu bar, etc to give more screen real estate to the client area.
In Windows 7 you can get to ...
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Check for new mail without Outlook
Is there an application that will allow me to be notified of new email received via Exchange, without having Outlook started? Basically I want to know when I receive new email without having Outlook ...
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RocketDock System Tray Docklet
Not sure if this belongs here, but...
I'm looking for either a download location or a how-to on making an executable that toggles the system tray.
All I need to do is create a small .exe or download ...
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How to minimize ICQ to tray?
How to configure ICQ 7.2 that after closing ICQ window it is minimized to tray?
Now it is minimized to task bar.
OS is Windows 7.
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System tray app for controlling services?
Is there a system tray app out there that provides quick access for controlling system services? I'm thinking a popup menu that lists all services on the system and provides Start/Stop/Restart ...
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Why does the wifi icon in my systray look like this?
On my brand new Windows 7 PC, the WiFi icon in my system tray looks funny. Here it is:
On my last Windows 7 PC, black lines bordered all the white bars and looked very uniform and normal. This one ...
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Is there a way to group and hide tray/notification area icons in Ubuntu?
tray icons take a lot of space. is there a solution that is similar to windows 7, where the tray icons are grouped together and hidden?
any other way to reduce the number of tray icons? one way i can ...
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Is there a system tray-based notepad/sticky note program?
I'd like to have a program with the following functionality: I could click on a tray icon and have a popup appear with some notes, and then I could click again and it'd go away.
Is there such a ...
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Delay Windows programs launching at boot?
On Windows XP I use 18 programs. In startup it makes 2-3 minutes to load all of them.
Anti virus, translator, unlocker, file indexer, download manager, instant messenger etc..
I need all of them and ...
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Is there an application that will move an active window to the system tray without minimizing it
I have an active application (lets say an instant messaging client) whose buddy list I have up (active) on one side of my screen at all times in Windows 7.
I would like to remove that icon from the ...
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Hide system tray icons on OS X
How can we hide the system tray icons, on the top menu, within OS X?
Those are not mine, but they're not too far off:
Something like Windows 7 has, to selective hide icons into a little window, ...
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Starting Kopete to system tray
Does anyone know how i can go about by starting kopete minimized to the system tray? I'm using KDE 4.5.1 on Kubuntu 10.10.
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multiple system trays like virtual desktops?
there's software to give virtual desktops.. programs like virtual dimension, or virtuwin.
but what about a program to give each desktop its own system tray?
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Change “Only show notifications” default
I see in Windows 7 that when you do not have the Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar option enabled (see below), the setting for individual applications is to Only show ...
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How do I stop the network icon in system tray from blinking on Windows XP
I've been using XP since forever and had that network icon always in the tray, but for some reason it's really bothering me now. Maybe because I'm using Windows 7 on my other two machines where the ...
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VLC only in Windows 7 system tray?
How can I set the VLC icon only in Windows 7 system tray and not duplicated also in the taskbar?
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Know of a good replacement for systray.exe?
Necessary background: I'm using a crippled version of Windows XP in which explorer.exe will not run, so I've been using the Task Manager's New Task dialog to run programs, copy files, etc. I am unable ...
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windows xp - preserve the hiding and showing of inactive icons?
In Win XP, sometimes I make settings for which icons should be always shown, and which always hidden, in the taskbar. But sometimes something happens and I lose that. I'd like a program to set them ...
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Navigate to taskbar notification area using keyboard? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to access the system tray using the keyboard?
Is there a keyboard shortcut that moves focus to the taskbar notification area?
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How to remove the Outlook 2010 icon from tray?
How do I remove the Outlook 2010 icon from my Windows 7 system tray / notification area?
Just for clarification: i really mean 'remove' and not 'hide'.
I have the icon in the taskbar and I don't ...
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on Windows XP, how can I remove (NOT hide) a system tray icon without closing the process?
So I leave uTorrent running on the system tray when I go to work, but every time my brother gets on the pc he closes it. So by the time I get back I've lost 7-8 hours of download. Most infuriating.
I ...
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Is there any way to restore icons from the system tray after Explorer.exe crashes?
Is there any way to restore icons from the system tray after Explorer.exe crashes?
I tried PS Tray Factory from here, but it is not free, and this is the only functionality that I need. Are there any ...
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Feed notification icon in tray — icon, not baloon or popup
I'm searching for a feed reader:
Windows
No new items → default icon
New items → special icon
Can access password-protected websites
I don't want to be interrupted, I just want to see in a moment ...
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How do i minimize evolution or xchat to the notification center (the mail)
Apps like Pidgin or Empathy can be reduced to the notification center, evolution or xchat can't, it need to have an another icon in the systray that i don't want.
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Minimize outlook to tray
I am using MS 2003. I want my Outlook to be minimized to tray.
I know the process that right click on outlook icon in tray. But I cannot see outlook icon in system tray.
What can be wrong? Can ...
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How to disable Skype from using system tray (notification area) on Linux?
I use AWN dock on Linux (which behaves much like Windows 7 panes, using one icon for launching an application and managing its windows). It loses Skype (as well as any other application) when it goes ...
