My laptop (an Inspiron 1100) runs XP Home. Over the last week or so, I've noticed a warning icon appearing in the system tray a few times a day. It is a yellow triangle with a black exclamation point ...

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 ...

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 check to ...

Keeping all system tray icons visible helps me stay aware of what’s running in the background. Visible icons aren’t cluttered if screen space allows and background apps are limited. System tray icons ...

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 ...

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 Taskbar ...

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, at least, giving you fingertip access ...

I frequently utilize the system tray icons to change battery scenarios, viewing wireless networks, etc, especially when my Tablet PC is in tablet mode. I’m finding the user interface (UI) and ...

Fi isn’t showing up in the System tray then you can’t connect to the internet. But there is a simple trick that you can use ...

Your network card is likely fine if the Wi-Fi icon is missing. Use these troubleshooting steps to quickly bring it back.