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Title: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: BC_Programmer on February 23, 2009, 10:07:46 PM
With many background tasks come system tray icons.

How many icons have you all got in your system tray and what are they?

For myself- I only have three. Volume Control, TaskSwitchProXP, and MSN messenger.Sometimes I quit messenger and thus have only two.
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on February 23, 2009, 10:36:05 PM
Battery/Charging, OneNote, Volume, Wireless/Internet, NetMeter, Kaspersky and MSN
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Broni on February 23, 2009, 10:37:10 PM
This is my laptop (12, not counting the clock). I'll post from my desktop tomorrow...

(http://209.85.48.8/228/109/upload/p4315736.gif)

DropBox
ClipMate
Webshots
SpywareGuard
SpeedFan
Comodo
Taskbar Shuffle
Synaptics Pointing Device
Battery
Network
Sound
SnagIt icon is not visible while taking a snapshot
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Calum on February 24, 2009, 02:15:11 AM
I have 8 on startup, I've got Fahmon, Rivatuner, Rivatuner showing my graphics card temperature, my Creative volume panel, safely remove hardware, Windows volume icon, and the network icon.  Pidgin is often there too, as it's usually open.
I could remove some of them, but for little or no gain.
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Broni on February 24, 2009, 04:19:15 PM
My desktop (17, not including the clock):

(http://209.85.48.8/228/109/upload/p4315957.gif)

RightMark CPU Clock Utility (2 icons)
DropBox
ClipMate
Comodo
Avast
SuperFinder
Webshots
Realtek Audio
WordWeb
NetMeter
tinySpell
Taskbar Shuffle
Safely Remove Hardware
UltraMon
WinPatrol
Smart Defrag
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: macdad- on February 24, 2009, 04:37:53 PM
used to have alot...but now its just down to:
Volume Control
Network Connection Monitor
Spybot TeaTimer
and the occasional Eject hardware icon(when i have my jump drive pluged in.)
 

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Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: patio on February 24, 2009, 04:48:53 PM
4...
Safely Remove Hardware
Vista Sidebar
Order a Beer
More Food
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: BC_Programmer on February 24, 2009, 04:55:29 PM
I just realized I lied. Normally I have four, but at the time I looked I had my USB hub plugged into my laptop rather then my desktop. So I always have the remove hardware icon as well.

Pah, everybody else is taking pictures:

Desktop(XP):

(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/BC_Programming/XPtray.jpg)


Laptop (Vista)

(http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/BC_Programming/vistatray.jpg)



4...
Safely Remove Hardware
Vista Sidebar
Order a Beer
More Food

When you choose "More food" it brings up a menu of gourmet meal choices which are then replicated in your nearby replication machine.

I remember when I first got my replication machine. just load in the raw material, (pretty much anything) and enter what you want, and bam, the machine replicates it.

for example, I turned 5 old 386 motherboards into an geForce 8600XT. The machine really pays for itself after a week or two. Especially since if you load up enough raw material you can replicate another replication machine.  ;D
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: macdad- on February 24, 2009, 05:02:53 PM
4...
Safely Remove Hardware
Vista Sidebar
Order a Beer
More Food

lol
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Broni on February 24, 2009, 05:27:28 PM
Quote
Safely Remove Hardware
Vista Sidebar
Order a Beer
More Food

You sure, you're not talking about this:

(http://209.85.48.8/228/109/upload/p4257347.jpg)
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: patio on February 24, 2009, 05:41:20 PM
That one's on the end table...
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Broni on February 24, 2009, 05:46:11 PM
Coincidentally (?), it has very similar buttons ;D
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: BC_Programmer on February 24, 2009, 05:46:37 PM
Mines broken. there was something stuck on the "+ *censored*" button...

needless to say by the time I removed the batteries it was too late. So now we need to roll a girney around wherever we go. People tend to stare.
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: patio on February 24, 2009, 05:53:35 PM
You can go out once in awhile by yourself you know ? ?
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: BC_Programmer on February 24, 2009, 05:54:56 PM
that's the best part, Now I can!
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on February 24, 2009, 06:41:16 PM
Funny, I was actually thinking of creating a post for this so I could get more icons for this page: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsys.htm

My Systray picture attached.

Icons are:
CRT
Thunderbird
AVG
Drobo
Sound
F@H
Remove hardware
Nvidia




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Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on February 24, 2009, 06:50:41 PM
Funny, I was actually thinking of creating a post for this so I could get more icons for this page: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsys.htm


Now that would be a lengthy process....
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Kurtiskain on February 25, 2009, 02:49:26 AM
Well technically it's 3 but its because windows 7 hides them by default.

Caps's attached

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Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: harry 48 on March 01, 2009, 04:17:03 PM
anyone , how are  you able to put the system tray photo on here
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: macdad- on March 01, 2009, 04:18:17 PM
Prnt Screen -> Paste to a new Paint image -> Save as GIF or Jpeg -> Reply Back and upload the pic with it.
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: harry 48 on March 02, 2009, 12:49:54 PM
thank you macdad- , you have lost me , i can do the last 2 , do not have a clue about the first 2   :-[  , go slow please , harry
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 02, 2009, 01:47:38 PM
1:

Print Screen key on your keyboard- On my keyboard, it is sitting to the right of my F-12 key, along with Scroll Lock and Pause/Break. Some keyboards place it with the Home and End Keys.


Then, once you've pushed the "Print Screen" key (also labelled "SysRq" LONG story behind that one...) open Paint, and use Edit->Paste. You can then perform a File->Save to save the file as a GIF or JPG.

Once this is done, you need to upload the picture to a file hosting site- I use Photobucket, ImageShack and a few others are just as good.

Once you've uploaded an image, most uploading services will provide you with the IMG forum code so you can paste it into your reply. Hope this helps you!  :)
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: harry 48 on March 02, 2009, 02:17:23 PM
thank you bcp i will try that , harry
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Broni on March 02, 2009, 02:31:30 PM
Harry
Get this: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,77942.0.html
It'll do everything for you.
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: harry 48 on March 02, 2009, 02:53:08 PM
good man broni , i will and try it out , harry
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: harry 48 on March 02, 2009, 04:33:39 PM
downloaded it and got a picture of my desktop to post in a topic , but it said the file

was to large , harry
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 02, 2009, 04:36:47 PM
did you trim it to include only the system tray?
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on March 02, 2009, 04:49:31 PM
How to crop an image (http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000989.htm)
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: Broni on March 02, 2009, 05:48:02 PM
...or you can get free, and excellent Irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com/
Open the picture in it, click Image>Resize
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: macdad- on March 02, 2009, 07:11:48 PM
or use Microsoft's Picture Manager that comes with MS Office
Title: Re: System Tray icon Counts....
Post by: harry 48 on March 03, 2009, 04:05:06 PM
thank you everyone will try it