"Bill Case" said in
It's not running. In this case it's MS Bookshelf.
The program you are talking about is the QuickShelf utility that comes with
Bookshelf. Quickshelf gets puts into your Startup folder and it displays
the system tray icon. There is only one advantage to having the tray icon:
you can highlight a word and then click on the tray icon to do the lookup
for you (if Bookshelf finds the word). Otherwise, don't bother loading
Quickshelf and just startup Bookshelf when you want to use it.
You could try to use a tray icon manager to reduce the number of icons shown
in the system notification area. For example, PC Magazine has its
TrayManager2 utility. It doesn't get rid of the tray icons. It merely
rolls them up under one tray icon which acts like a manager for them. This
reduces the size of the system tray because fewer icons are displayed there.
You click on the tray manager to see the icons that it is managing.
However, Quickshelf and some other tray icons will not behave correctly when
rolled up under a tray icon manager. Quickshelf will cease to function when
using TrayManager2. Maybe it will work with some other tray icon manager
utility.
If all you are using the Quickshelf tray icon for is to load Bookshelf then
don't bother to load Quickshelf. You hunt for its tray icon amongst a
myriad of other tray icons, or you hunt through your Start menu to the
shortcut for Bookshelf. You really don't save anything much to improve ease
of startup unless you are almost constantly using Bookshelf.
TrayManager2, along with other utilities, used to be free at pcmag.com.
While the utilities themselves are still free, PC Magazine now wants you to
pay to subscribe to their download site. Sucks. Since it is copyrighted
software, and since it appears PC Mag doesn't allow other sites to carry
their utilities, I doubt you will find TrayManager2 anywhere else. However,
there might be other tray icon manager utilities that will work just as
well.
