by: Lee Koo (ADMIN) September 19, 2008 11:18 AM PDT
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Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) 
- 9/19/08 11:18 AM
How many icons do you have in your Windows System tray (bottom right side of your desktop)?
1-5 icons (Nice! What are they?)
6-10 icons (Not bad. What are they?)
11-15 icons (OK. What are they?)
16-20 icons (Clean up time. What are they?)
21-25 icons (Clean up time. What are they?)
26 or more (How does your system run, anyways? What is it that you have?)
This doesnt apply to me.
17!
by tison.vincent - 9/21/08 11:34 PM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hello !
I don't entirely agree with the comments on the poll. The less icons in the systray doesn't mean the computer runs better than one with many of them. I have 17 at work and I wouldn't live without most of them. Indeed they may take up quite some place on the bottom screen but as I run a pretty high resolution, you don't notice them that much.
Here are they
1 - Outlook
2 - IM
3 - Task Manager
4 - Winamp
5 - SuperFinder
6 - Last.fm Audioscrobbler
7 - RealTek Sound Panel
8 - OfficeScan
9 - Odometer
10 - Taskbar Shuffle
11 - Sizer
12 - FireWall Client
13 - Network
14 - SuperCopier
15 - Windows Sound
16 - RamPage
17 - USB
Have a nice day !
icons
by Amos16 - 9/22/08 1:01 AM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hi - Five icons: language bar, date-in-tray, HP digital imaging monitor, Gmail inbox notifier, volume. C'est tout. Nice? -Amos/
IT has 21 installed
by zclayton2 - 9/22/08 6:39 AM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I can use about 5 of them. Three or four are installed for "Future use" projects not rolled out for the last 6 months. The rest are inaccessable due to the security settings - so I'm not real sure why they are displayed other than sloppy set up by our "Professionals".
icons in system tray
by rhd2qcnet - 9/22/08 9:55 AM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have eight: virus program, eFax, SyncBack, Registry Mechanic, indexing, safely remove hardware,volume control, WinPatrol
Six & Nine here
by jahnjahn - 9/22/08 10:20 AM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Six at startup:
Comodo Firewall
SuperAntiSpyware
Comodo BOClean
Avast A/V
Volume
Clock/Date
Nine after opening my "normal programs", add:
Internet connection
Free Download Manager
Process Explorer (minimized to tray to monitor CPU activity)
It varies, 2 to 8
by albizzia - 9/22/08 1:53 PM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Several icons of lesser importance are "hidden", but show up when attention is needed. It is possible to set the program icons to "always display" or "display on alert" or "don't display".
Two that always display is Local Ethernet Connection, and DSL connection.
Ones that display on alert or when I click the "show icons" arrow include: 2 printer message alerts (for 2 printers), Live One Care, Volume control, and "safely disconnect hardware" for USB devices.
Only 4!!!
by myeske2 - 9/22/08 3:49 PM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Volume Control, Mcafee Security Center, Mcafee Wireless Security, and the Wireless Network Icon.
Can't stop Dell Support Center from loading.
by Keith 79 - 9/23/08 1:12 AM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I keep unchecking it in msconfig, but it keeps loading at startup. How do I stop this?
Otherwise, just ZoneAlarm, Verizon something, and Spyware load at startup
Thanks, Keith......
Four
by shepherd66 - 9/23/08 5:43 PM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
ZoneAlarm
AntiVir
Printer icon
Volume control
On XP Pro SP3
10
by nokoc - 9/23/08 11:05 PM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i've got 10
but i can not deceide which one is unuseful^.^
Systray: 5 QuickLaunch: 100+
by TONI H - 9/24/08 12:04 PM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Systray = 2-Avast icons, 1-sound, 1-MS Security crap that refuses to go away, 1-USB for external harddrive
QuickLaunch = I have about 50 now, but use to have well over 100 when I was a Moderator here at CNet because most were shortcuts to most asked forum tips questions.
TONI H
Windows System Tray
by Janet Trigg - 9/25/08 11:23 AM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
on ac power linksystem
updates local area connection
volume microphone
touch pad clock
quicktime windows media player
dell quickset quicktime again
dell support center media center
adware alert mirosoft outlook launch
net waiting launch internet explorer
avg
hp digital imaging monitor
adobe photo downloader
Icons
by insanecatlady - 9/26/08 4:55 PM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have 11 including my clock they are
clock
speaker
network thingy
printer thingy
pando
blue tooth
realtech
packard pc setup
norton
remove hard ware
Defender
Im running vista on a very new comp and it all starts very quickly.
I have 12 - Help me....
by sauronjim - 9/27/08 2:32 AM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
1. Safely Remove Hardware
2. Volume Control
3. "Local Area Connection" the 2 little computers showing my internet connection
4. Spybot-SD Resident
5. Skype
6. Zone Alarm Firewall
7. Torrent
8. "Indexing Idle" Windows Desktop Search
9. Azereus Vuze - Yes I realise I have 2 bittorent DLers
10. SnagIt - A screenshot taking program
11. Avira AntiVir Personal
12. "Logitech Video" I think this is something to do with my Logitech webcam, but I don't know if this is needed to use the webcam and I don't know how to get rid of the icon.
I usually have around 10
by 2Cold Scorpio - 9/27/08 8:00 AM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I typically have around 10 icons these days:
Avast! Antivirus
Evga Precision
Creative Volume Control
Logitech SetPoint
Local Area Connection #1 (Internet)
Windows Defender
Comodo Firewall
PeerGuardian 2
TrueTransparency
FRAPS (this is off most of the time)
Windows Live Messenger (again, off most of the time lately)
i have only 5 icons in system tray
by gamedad - 10/4/08 1:02 PM
In Reply to: Poll: How many icons in your Windows System tray? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
1 for my battery back-up, 1 for printer with imaging studio, 1 for my video card, 1 for my anti-virus program, and 1 for volume control of all my computer options like microphone, speakers, dvd-rom, aux, wave, and a bunch others.
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