Can I park the System Tray somewhere else?

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My System tray has become so overloaded with icons for every little thing
that there's hardly room left for open files. I've had to raise the height
of my bottom bar to avoid having to use the elevator arrows. Can I
disconnect the System Tray and park it somewhere else? I could spare a
sliver of width better than another strip of height.

Ed
 
Sure- make sure you remove the check from "lock the taskbar" then just drag
it to the side with your mouse!
 
Hi, Jon. That moves the whole bottom Task Bar. I just want to get the
overstuffed System Tray out of the way.
Ed
 
To each his own, but, were it mine, I would do some serious cleaning of the
startup apps. Surely, you can't need THAT many apps at startup. You could
do yourself and your computer a favor by trimming this to a manageable
level. This site provides some very good insight as to what you need at
startup and what should be considered 'fluff.'
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
From the sounds of things, this would decrease your boot time significantly
and free up some memory. Of course, this may not be a factor for
you..........just a friendly suggestion, do with it what you may.
Heirloom, old and only has 6 in the tray,
not counting the clock
 
Wish I could, Heirloom, but this is a work computer, and I'm lucky they let
me move icons around!
Ed
 
Understood..........and in answer to your question, I don't think there is a
way to seperate the Systray from the taskbar, but, I'm no guru, either.
Heirloom, old and getting real hungry
 
Based on the fact you say it is a work computer, I can only say talk to your
inhouse IT people.
There is no reason at all for all those shortcuts (which in all likelyhood
is what these are).
 
Ed,

This isn't what you asked, but you may be able to help yourself by
hiding inactive icons in the systray. Right click a blank area on the
Taskbar, on the menu that appears left click "Properties" and on the
Properties page that appears check "Hide Inactive Icons". That may help you.

Milt
 
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My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
My System tray has become so overloaded with icons for every little
thing that there's hardly room left for open files. I've had to
raise the height of my bottom bar to avoid having to use the elevator
arrows. Can I disconnect the System Tray and park it somewhere else?
I could spare a sliver of width better than another strip of height.

Ed
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Don't. Unless you need them to run constantly in the background disable them
from running at startup.

Pesky Startup Apps:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/startupapps.html

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In Ed had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
My System tray has become so overloaded with icons for every little
thing that there's hardly room left for open files. I've had to
raise the height of my bottom bar to avoid having to use the elevator
arrows. Can I disconnect the System Tray and park it somewhere else?
I could spare a sliver of width better than another strip of height.

Ed
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Hah, nevermind... I just saw your response that it was a work computer.
Hmm... Yeah, I agree... Ping your IT folks and show them and then tell them
to work on it. Moving it as a separate entity will potentially do the trick
but I think you'll need a third party application for that and that's surely
not allowed. Hiding them is a good idea as has been proposed and is your
best stop-gap measure IF you can enabled it.

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http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes
 
Ed said:
My System tray has become so overloaded with icons for every little
thing that there's hardly room left for open files. I've had to
raise the height of my bottom bar to avoid having to use the elevator
arrows. Can I disconnect the System Tray and park it somewhere else?
I could spare a sliver of width better than another strip of height.

Ed
Click to expand...

have you checked the box "Hide inactive icons"? (Right-click anywhere on the
toolbar and choose Properties....)
 
Thanks to all who responded. I wound up getting extra room by moving all my
Quick Launch buttons (all 5!) to my Office bar. Hiding Unused Icons didn't
do anything - apparently these are all active processes! No wonder my
machine runs slow!

Thanks for the help.
Ed
 
You can also move the Quick Launch toolbar -- or any other toolbar -- to any
place on the screen.
 
Ed said:
Thanks to all who responded. I wound up getting extra room by moving
all my Quick Launch buttons (all 5!) to my Office bar. Hiding Unused
Icons didn't do anything - apparently these are all active processes!
No wonder my machine runs slow!
Click to expand...

then you REALLY REALY need to talk to your IT dept - I've NEVER been in any
company (including an ASP) where a user needed more than four or five apps
to start up......
 
Ed said:
My System tray has become so overloaded with icons for every little thing
that there's hardly room left for open files. I've had to raise the height
of my bottom bar to avoid having to use the elevator arrows. Can I
disconnect the System Tray and park it somewhere else? I could spare a
sliver of width better than another strip of height.

Ed
Click to expand...


The system tray cannot be separated from the task bar. If you have too
many icons showing there, wouldn't it be much simpler to just "turn off"
those applications whose icons you don't want to see in the system tray?
(Also, you do realize, don't you, that for each icon in the system
tray, there is an application running in the background, sucking up
system resources and slowing down the computer?)

In most cases, with "well-mannered" applications, it's usually as
simple as opening the undesired program and deselecting the option to
"display icon in the system tray" or to "start when Windows starts."

Additionally, Look in the C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Start Menu\Programs\Start Up and C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Start Menu\Programs\Start Up folders, and in the
system registry, primarily in the
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run keys.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310560


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