MetaProducts TrayIcon Pro 1.7.219Supports Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003
Upgrades to TrayIcon Pro from Wingo, Trayicon, Trayicon Standard, Trayicon Menu or Trayicon Standard products are for free, please send an E-mail
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http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/167696-ZLUX/tpsetup.exeMeta Products is currently discontinuing all other versions of this product
Tested On: WinXPPROSP2, Pentium4 2.8 with 512 ram
More screenshots can be viewed here
http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/TrayIcon_Pro-Screenshots.htmTrayIcon Pro is a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003 application that was developed to let you quickly run your favorite applications and folders directly from the system tray.
TrayIcon Pro lets you add icons for these applications and folders to the tray itself or into menus that sit behind icons in the tray. Finally, the functionality of our whole TrayIcon range is brought together in one easy-to-use application.
The new version adds support for Netscape Bookmarks and Opera Hotlists as well as a history of recently browsed URLs. So, you can easily browse Web sites directly from your tray!
Another great feature is the ability to minimize any of your application to the system tray. TrayIcon Pro adds its button next to the standard Minimize/Maximize/Close button to all windows. You can choose to minimize the application to a separate tray icon or to a menu in the tray.
The new version allows you to protect icons from being started with a password - to limit access to some programs if the computer is shared between several users.
Here is my input.
MetaProducts TrayIcon Pro is good...very good.
http://www.metaproducts.comIt is fairly easy for newbie to figure out "How To" program it without the need to dig to through the Help files.
The way it's GUI works is whats a bit abnormal.
The GUI is both tabbed and each Tab also changes with the selection on it's drop down list. While programming my user settings I found the GUI's interface to be a bit of niggle for it was un-Windows like to me. However, once I figured it out, it was a cinch....just remembering How To find an particular option setting each time was a different story.
The program's installer was smooth. I had no complaint from either Kaspersky or ZAPS.
TrayIcon Pro displays a list of shortcuts which you pre-program. To bring the list up...the amount of time....compares to me initially opening my Windows Start Menu. There is a very big hesitation. I only programed TrayIcon Pro with my DeskTop shortcuts.
I have roughly 100 DeskTop shortcut's. I have 3 HD's on board and I do expect things to be slower then average due to the amount I have.
TrayIcon Pro is just a menu of my shortcuts. The same as your regular Start Menu.
I wanted & wished more from it.
It teased me.
It's
memory usage grows bigger the longer it's used. It doesn't matter if it's menu was accessed or not. It's memory usage tops at about 20 megs but never lessens after it reaches that.
I found it hard yet easy to use. The hard part was I could open things faster without it by just clicking on my DeskTop Shortcuts what this product is supposed to replace. To give it a fair shake I tested a few other products of same category and I found the above statement to be true with all
I could open things just as fast with TrayIcon Pro as I can via XP's Menus. I found I was forced to read through TrayIcon Pro's list & that takes time. I'm just so accustomed to using Desk Top Icon positionings instead of actually reading to find what I need.
I tried and tested other alternatives.
I found 2 others that meet my needs but still lack.
They are both "Docks"
I don't care for DOCKS yet I do like their punch much.
They both beat Object Dock, in my book, when it comes to their memory consumption.
Y'z Dock wins when it comes to memory consumption.
It's Memory consumption is almost NIL when the "auto-Hide" feature is used....yet it is very snappy.
Download:
http://gwbn2.onlinedown.net/down/yz_dck0083.zipRK Launcher is a spin-off of Y'z Dock it is an improved GUI of the original Y'Z's
Download:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncherIt accepts gadgets from StarDock consumes more memory and I think is stolen code.
Both are freeware. Y'Z' Dock's development appears to have been discontinued sometime in either in 2002 or 2003 and the website is now down(hence the direct link). It's author, M.Yamaguchi works for Konami and it appears that he really upset Apple when he made this app & released it for free to all Windows user
I would love to see a Vista version of it done by him.
There is also my old tried and true fall-back app which is the one I think I will return to. I use it all the time to save my DeskTop Icon's Positioning. It's fantastic for that and only needs to be run if the the positioning gets messed up. Accidentally grabbing an icon and hitting the edge of your screen with it will definitely mess them up & some games will too. It also has a feature to make the background of your icon labels invisible. That isn't even the best part yet. It has super duper bonus feature which auto hides your DeskTop Icons, until you mouse over 'em
It's called
Iconiod http://www.sillysot.com/It is Sillyware and free for all. The Silly part of it is that it can actually make your DeskTop Icons Dance! That is really fun to do at the office to someone who is getting on your nerves
BTW, Iconiod is also working perfectly in my Vista RC1 OS. I don't know whether or not if it's installer will, but when installed via XP and launching the executable via Vista it will run.
WL
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