notification area

To reduce clutter, Windows hides icons in the notification area when you haven't used them in a while.

The notification area hides icons you haven't clicked recently. Click here to see the hidden icons.

Windows 7 brought along an overhauled notification area (or the system tray) to help people better manage those tiny icons.

This can be the case for processes that appear as icons in the notification area, at the far right of the taskbar.

An example would be a virus protection program that can be accessed by clicking an icon in the status notification area of the taskbar.

Double-clicking an icon in the notification area usually opens the program or setting associated with it.

Connection Manager displays an icon in the notification area of the taskbar. You can add items to the shortcut menu for the icon.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the icon is visible in the notification area of the taskbar.

Displays an icon in the status notification area of the taskbar that represents an application running in the background.

Occasionally, an icon in the notification area will display a small pop-up window (called a notification) to notify you about something.

How this message is actually displayed is implementation specific; at present the GNOME notification area displays a tooltip.

Right click the NetworkManager icon in the system notification area.

Click the NetworkManager icon in the system notification area.

Gets a visual style element that represents an animated background of the notification area.

You may see an exclamation point icon in the notification area immediately after the installation of Client Security completes.

After the Client Security agent installation completes, the Client Security icon appears in the notification area.

If the Suspend and Hibernate options should be allowed in the notification area drop down menu.

Bug: Rare crash when clicking notification area icon - apparently only triggerable with certain third party components running.

In the notification area of the taskbar, click the battery icon, and then click More power options.

Publishing status is displayed in the status notification area of the taskbar.

That represents an animated background of the notification area, which is located at the far right of the taskbar.

That represents the background of the notification area.

Objects for the background of the notification area, which is located at the far right of the taskbar.

When you left-click on the volume control icon in the notification area, a miniature volume control appears.

Component displays an icon in the status notification area of the taskbar.

Display a status indicator in the status notification area of the taskbar.

Occurs when the user releases the mouse button while the pointer is over the icon in the notification area of the taskbar.

Gets or sets the ToolTip text displayed when the mouse pointer rests on a notification area icon.

Component displays a single icon in the status notification area of the taskbar.

Customizes the display of items in the Start menu, taskbar, and notification area.

Publishing status is displayed in the status notification area.

You will see the ASP. NET Development Server icon in the notification area, at the far right of the taskbar.

Occurs when the user double-clicks the icon in the notification area of the taskbar.

You can view and purge the ticket cache by using the Kerberos Tray tool icon located in the notification area of the desktop.

This sample demonstrates how to create a program that displays an icon in the status notification area of the taskbar.

Specifies a component that creates an icon in the notification area.

Press the CTRL key and right-click the Outlook icon in the notification area.

Show new mail icon in notification area when new messages arrive.

You can keep the notification area uncluttered by hiding items that you have not clicked recently.

You can keep the notification area uncluttered by hiding icons that you have not clicked recently.

Right-click the Kerbtray icon in the notification area, and then click purge tickets.

A reworked notification area.

Show an envelope icon in the notification area.

Please ask the other people using %1 to close it completely: Click the %1 icon in the notification area, and then click Exit.

Occurs when the user clicks the icon in the notification area.

Also, if a LAN cable is unplugged, a status icon is displayed in the notification area.

You will see the ASP. Net Development Server icon in the notification area.

What else does the notification area allow us to do?

To demonstrate the process, I will wrap EggTrayIcon, a GTK widget that abstracts an icon in the notification area.

Open the battery meter, located in the notification area on the taskbar.

The notification area displays a message after new hardware is installed

Click the Show hidden icons button to display all icons in the notification area

Hide the Outlook icon in the notification area of the taskbar

Place volume icon in the taskbar notification area, i,

Show in notification area when connected, w,

Hide icon and bubble in Notification Area