I realized how messy my Windows system tray was. Windows’ default hide icons feature kept some mess out of my sight, but still, everything felt disorganized, and fixing it manually felt like a big ...

It’s been a while since I’ve gathered up Windows tips for you. I know, I’ve been remiss. So this week I’ve got a great tip on fine-tuning Windows Vista and 7’s AutoPlay settings, and I help a reader ...

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 ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

When icons start disappearing from Windows Vista's system tray—like the networking, volume control, or time display—and you can't restore them from the standard options menus, the itch to re-install ...

Windows has changed a lot in the last few years, for good, but some features were better in the previous versions of Windows. For example, the grouped icons in our taskbar. With the latest Windows 11 ...

For some reason the system tray in my laptop has completely disappeared:<BR> View image: http://img43.exs.cx/img43/8797/tray1vs.jpg <BR><BR>It's been this way for ...

The Volume Control icon in the system tray is the quickest way to control the volume on your Windows 11/10 PC. However if after a recent update or a software installation, it no longer responds to ...

Windows user Love Underlined has an old laptop running Vista and can't afford to sacrifice system memory to desktop customizing programs with a lot of bells and whistles. Instead, she creates a simple ...

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 ...