system tray manager?

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Spoon2001

Trying to reduce system tray clutter.

Wanted: a system tray manager that will allow me to keep some icons always
visible, but allow me to consolidate others in a menu accessible through the
system tray. I want to be able to pick and choose which icons are always
visible, and those which go into a popup menu.

Some system tray icons have a notification function; I want most of them
visible all the time.

Other system tray icons have no notification function, but have useful
functions available through left/right click. These are the kind I'd like
to put on a menu accessible from the system tray.

Other features are OK too, provided it doesn't get too complex and boggle my
mind.

Thanks for any help. I googled previous alt.comp.freeware messages but I
didn't find exactly what I was looking for.
 
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Rod

Spoon2001 said:
Trying to reduce system tray clutter.

Wanted: a system tray manager that will allow me to keep some icons
always visible, but allow me to consolidate others in a menu
accessible through the system tray. I want to be able to pick and
choose which icons are always visible, and those which go into a
popup menu.

Some system tray icons have a notification function; I want most of
them visible all the time.

Other system tray icons have no notification function, but have useful
functions available through left/right click. These are the kind I'd
like to put on a menu accessible from the system tray.

Other features are OK too, provided it doesn't get too complex and
boggle my mind.

Thanks for any help. I googled previous alt.comp.freeware messages
but I didn't find exactly what I was looking for.
Click to expand...

I just finished my quest for one of these last week. I used traywizard from
http://www.traywizard.com/ for about a month, but for some reason it kept
messing aruond with the tray-icons (switching them from visible to not
visible and vice-versa). I'm glad I got rid of it.
Now I'm very content with Effective Desktop, wich covers up the icons you
don't want to be visible with the taskbar, one click and their back, another
click and their gone again. It has some other features, like customizing
your start-button and enabling flatstyle buttons in your taskbar. It's a
keeper (I'm using win98SE, don't know how it works on other version of Win)
http://w1.182.telia.com/~u18202752/efdsk101.zip

HTH Rod
 
T

Thorsten Duhn

Hello,
Now I'm very content with Effective Desktop, wich covers up the icons
you don't want to be visible with the taskbar, one click and their
back, another click and their gone again. It has some other features,
like customizing your start-button and enabling flatstyle buttons in
your taskbar. It's a keeper (I'm using win98SE, don't know how it
works on other version of Win)
Click to expand...

works great with win2000 as well, I love it, too.

Regards,
Thorsten
 
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jo

Spoon2001 said:
Wanted: a system tray manager that will allow me to keep some icons always
visible, but allow me to consolidate others in a menu accessible through the
system tray. I want to be able to pick and choose which icons are always
visible, and those which go into a popup menu.

Some system tray icons have a notification function; I want most of them
visible all the time.
Click to expand...

Tray Wizard

http://www.traywizard.com/
 
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jo

Rod said:
Now I'm very content with Effective Desktop, wich covers up the icons you
don't want to be visible with the taskbar, one click and their back, another
click and their gone again.
Click to expand...

This looks really nice; I'm going to replace Tray Wizard and see how
it goes.
At some point I might even enable active desktop to check on the plug
ins. :)
 
J

jo

Rod said:
I just finished my quest for one of these last week. I used traywizard from
http://www.traywizard.com/ for about a month, but for some reason it kept
messing aruond with the tray-icons (switching them from visible to not
visible and vice-versa). I'm glad I got rid of it.
Click to expand...

Strange. Totally stable and reliable here on 98SE.
 
R

Rod

jo said:
Strange. Totally stable and reliable here on 98SE.
Click to expand...

Like I siad, it just couldn't 'remember' to keep certain icons in the menu
or tray. Example: updating AVG resulted in the icon popping up in the tray ,
where I would like it to stay in the menu. I got tired of putting it back. I
found in http://tinyurl.com/2xho4 that it's a known problem. And it wasn't
only my AVG, it seemed to me it also had problems with large numbers of
icons. Opening a new program often resulted in a lot of
re-arranging-icons-activity from Traywizard, after which things were just
messed up. Switching to Effective Desktop solved all problems, and I must
say, I realy like it.

Rod
 
S

Spoon2001

Tried both Effective Desktop and TrayWizard. So far, the winner is
TrayWizard. Mainly because Effective Desktop only gives me the option to
hide certain icons, not others. I haven't figured out how to get Effective
Desktop to handle those other icons. So far no problem moving any icons
from Tray to TrayWizard menu. Thanks to all who replied.
 
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Rod

Spoon2001 said:
Tried both Effective Desktop and TrayWizard. So far, the winner is
TrayWizard. Mainly because Effective Desktop only gives me the
option to hide certain icons, not others. I haven't figured out how
to get Effective Desktop to handle those other icons. So far no
problem moving any icons from Tray to TrayWizard menu. Thanks to all
who replied.
Click to expand...

launch effective desktop, click explorerX, click customize, click tray
icons, click customixe icons, click in the behavior-list behind the icon you
want to hide, untill it says hide this icon, click OK. Works for every icon
with me.
Out of curiousity, what are the icons it wouldn't hide ? And if tray-wizard
works for you, could you try to update your anti-virus with it's icon hidden
and report here if it's still hidden after you updated it ? TIA
If it works, I think tray wizard is a great program. It just didn't work for
me in win98SE. Glad you're happy with it.

Rod
 
S

Spoon2001

launch effective desktop, click explorerX, click customize, click
tray icons, click customixe icons, click in the behavior-list behind
the icon you want to hide, untill it says hide this icon, click OK.
Works for every icon with me.
Click to expand...

I may try ED again; I uninstalled it before installing TM, because I didn't
want anything crazy happening.
Out of curiousity, what are the icons it wouldn't hide ?
Click to expand...

I'll have to check that when I reinstall. I think not even half of my many
icons were hidden.
And if
tray-wizard works for you, could you try to update your anti-virus
with it's icon hidden and report here if it's still hidden after you
updated it ? TIA
Click to expand...

I updated my antivirus program (AVG) with icon hidden, and the icon was not
hidden after the update. I tried to hide it with TM but it didn't work; the
icon stayed visible.
 
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Rod

Spoon2001 said:
I may try ED again; I uninstalled it before installing TM, because I
didn't want anything crazy happening.


I'll have to check that when I reinstall. I think not even half of
my many icons were hidden.


I updated my antivirus program (AVG) with icon hidden, and the icon
was not hidden after the update. I tried to hide it with TM but it
didn't work; the icon stayed visible.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the info, same thing happened here with Tray Wizard. But if it's
not bothering you and it's the only flaw, I think Tray Wizard is a great
program.

Rod
 
G

Guenter Poelz

Try the old PC Mag TrayManager, still available free here:

TrayManager 2.0
Hide little-used tray icons. FREEWARE WIN95/98/NT/2000.
http://www.filelibrary.com:8080/cgi-bin/freedownload/Multi-Platform/n/105/traymgr.zip

It's what I use, and I've been well satisfied with it.
Click to expand...

I use TrayManager 1.0 without any problems with my WIN98SE.

Now I tried version 2.0 with the result that the freecell window opens
but hangs. The window header is corrupted. Went back -> ok.

I wanted to install version 1.0 on my daughters WINXP. It didn't work.
Guenter
 

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