Do I really need to have EditPad icon in system tray?

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When I installed EditPad Lite using the "No Questions Asked" option,
then reviewed the list of preferences, I discovered that
"Show EditPad icon in system tray" was checked by default.

What is the advantage of having the EditPad icon in the system tray?
I would guess that it means the program is resident and will
come up faster every subsequent time you invoke it.
But the difference can't be more than a half-second?
And this also means that it'll be hoarding up 5 MB of RAM
when it's not being used.

I'm planning on unchecking that option.
Are there any reasons other than "faster startup" for
having the icon in the system tray?
 
When I installed EditPad Lite using the "No Questions Asked" option,
then reviewed the list of preferences, I discovered that
"Show EditPad icon in system tray" was checked by default.

What is the advantage of having the EditPad icon in the system tray?
I would guess that it means the program is resident and will
come up faster every subsequent time you invoke it.
But the difference can't be more than a half-second?
And this also means that it'll be hoarding up 5 MB of RAM
when it's not being used.

I'm planning on unchecking that option.
Are there any reasons other than "faster startup" for
having the icon in the system tray?
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System Tray (lower right) or Quick Launch Menu (lower left)?

If Tray, just launch the program and set the options to not close to the
Tray. There's no need to keep such a fast little program open all the time.

The Quick Launch Menu is a better place for it, although room is limited. I
keep 4 icons for my most frequently opened and closed programs there, and my
text editor is 1 of them.

Bob

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Bob Adkins said:
There's no need to keep such a fast little program open all the time.
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Just because it puts an icon in the tray does not necessarily mean that the
program is loaded and active.

When I used Editpad, years ago, I got the impression that it started when I
used the tray icon, and that it was not loaded when not used.

To find out if it is loaded/active or just has a start icon in the tray you
can use a process viewer or task manager and a memory inspection program to
find out how it actually works for Editpad.

ATM (Another Task Manager)
memload.exe

are the programs I would use to find the truth about the Editpad tray icon.
 
Just because it puts an icon in the tray does not necessarily mean that the
program is loaded and active.
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Programs in the Tray are usually running, and can be found in the running
processes.

I didn't want to confuse the OP by giving him more information than he
wanted.

Bob

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When I installed EditPad Lite using the "No Questions Asked" option,
then reviewed the list of preferences, I discovered that
"Show EditPad icon in system tray" was checked by default.

What is the advantage of having the EditPad icon in the system tray?
I would guess that it means the program is resident and will
come up faster every subsequent time you invoke it.
But the difference can't be more than a half-second?
And this also means that it'll be hoarding up 5 MB of RAM
when it's not being used.

I'm planning on unchecking that option.
Are there any reasons other than "faster startup" for
having the icon in the system tray?
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I use EditPad and it works just as well by changing file associations if
that is what you want to do. It is fast already. So uncheck it.
 
The Quick Launch Menu is a better place for it, although room is limited.
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I place shortcuts to folders in my quick launch, with each folder
containing shortcuts to similar apps. For instance my graphix folder
contains 27 shortcuts. I have 12 folders listed. Using folders to hold
shortcuts and placing shortcuts to the folders on the quick launch gives
the user much more capacity. :)
Looks like this...
http://freeware4u.com/image/quiklaunch.jpg
 
mercoledì 18/feb/2004 _wylbur37_ ha scritto:
What is the advantage of having the EditPad icon in the system tray?
I would guess that it means the program is resident and will
come up faster every subsequent time you invoke it.
But the difference can't be more than a half-second?
And this also means that it'll be hoarding up 5 MB of RAM
when it's not being used.
Click to expand...

I keep it in the system tray and I see (with Task Manager) that it takes
only 800 KB of memory, when minimized.
 
I place shortcuts to folders in my quick launch, with each folder
containing shortcuts to similar apps. For instance my graphix folder
contains 27 shortcuts. I have 12 folders listed. Using folders to hold
shortcuts and placing shortcuts to the folders on the quick launch gives
the user much more capacity. :)
Looks like this...
http://freeware4u.com/image/quiklaunch.jpg
Click to expand...


I love the QL menu.

I used to use nested folders, but use a commercial button bar not that's
un-beatable.

Bob

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2/18/2004 5:31:17 AM: (e-mail address removed) (wylbur37)
When I installed EditPad Lite using the "No Questions Asked" option,
then reviewed the list of preferences, I discovered that
"Show EditPad icon in system tray" was checked by default.
Click to expand...

It depends . . . if it is minimized to the tray, EditPad and all open
documents will remain in memory for quick access. If it's -closed- to
tray, it will only have a small remnant of the program running for quick
access.

The tray can be handy if you use the program heavily (For instance, I'm
always bouncing to and from it web editing and file editing and so on).

For some of us, it's handy to have it in the tray. Others, perhaps not.
At any rate:

Options > Preferences > [System] > []Show EditPad icon in system tray


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2/18/2004 2:40:13 PM: burnr said:
I place shortcuts to folders in my quick launch, with each folder
containing shortcuts to similar apps. For instance my graphix folder
contains 27 shortcuts. I have 12 folders listed. Using folders to hold
shortcuts and placing shortcuts to the folders on the quick launch gives
the user much more capacity. :)
Looks like this...
http://freeware4u.com/image/quiklaunch.jpg
Click to expand...

Which, in effect, makes it another start menu? :-)

I do similarly.

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