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NotifyIcons — Put that System tray to work!

Posted on April 7, 2025 at 02:43 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

By Deanna McElveen

The Windows System tray (or status notification area) tells us when our Internet is down, when our printer is out of ink, and provides countless other alerts.

Windows and other programs install NotifyIcons to our System trays to accomplish this.

During our morning coffee sipping/software hunt the other day, we came across two pretty neat utilities, Icon Meter and Temperature Icon Meter.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.14.0, 2025-04-07).

Freeware Spotlight Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, Icon Meter, Newsletters, PixiEditor, Temperature Icon Meter

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