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Last post Author Topic: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?  (Read 50205 times)

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Faststone Capture 5.3
Bluetooth (connects iPhone to PC)
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« Last Edit: July 22, 2015, 04:40 PM by kyrathaba »

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Re: What's living in your taskbar right now?
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2015, 03:45 PM »
so you mean taskbar notification area?

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2015, 03:47 PM »
Yep. Fixed my title.

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2015, 04:07 PM »
I use a triple height taskbar with small icons to give them room to pile on.  :)

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ReRun
FolderCache
SoundMixer
CommonKeys
Transpose
PastePath
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the bottom row are built in system utilities

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2015, 04:27 PM »
I was given a laptop:

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AnVir TaskManager Pro
Paste Text Like
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Dell Touchpad
Safely Remove...
FastStone Capture 8
Network 6
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Speakers
1 hr 24 min (37%) remaining
Computer status: Protected
Action Center (no current issues detected)
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Mouse Hunter Agent (www.amlpages.com) ON
Remaining 1:24 hour (37%) AC power: Offline
Clipboard Master

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Regarding Dell Touchpad: inherited, it came with the machine. I have no idea what it does, but I don't dare to kill it.
I have no understanding of why there are two programs to tell me, how long the accumulator's power supply will last.

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2015, 06:05 PM »
Curious about FolderCache and PastePath...

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2015, 06:39 PM »
Curious about FolderCache and PastePath...

Thank you for asking.  FolderCache got a write-up awhile back here

PastePath was inspired by a post on DC.  I forget the location of the post.  But it mentioned another software that made it easy to paste in an Explorer folder path.  That is all PastePath does.  It remembers the last folder that was active and pastes it when you hit the hotkey.  I detects a command prompt and pastes it in so that the prompt will accept it(I believe it right clicks the mouse.)  Very simple but it is convenient for avoiding drilling down in SaveAs and Open dialogs. It will paste into anything that accepts clipboard text via Control v.

It is not perfect.  It won't get the path of special folders like Computer(neither will FolderCache.)  One of these days I should add that in but I fear making the calls to get the special folder CLSIDs or names may be slow.  If you use a file manager other than File Explorer then these two utilities may not be all that useful.  But if you mainly  do file copy/move with Explorer they may make a few things a bit easier.

Edit: I updated my thread on DC for the program:

https://www.donation....msg385388#msg385388

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2015, 07:50 PM »
Screenshot - 7_22_2015 , 8_38_58 PM.pngWhat's living in your taskbar notification area right now?

Way too much.

Remove Hardware, Bluetooth, Beats audio, Windows yammer-at-me center, Dolphin text editor
Xmarks, Citrx receiver, Listary, Intel AppUp (I thought I had uninstalled that!), Gateway IP monitor
Virtual Clone Drive, WinTV, Popfile, Net Extender, VistaSwitcher
D4, Glasswire, Teamviewer, Skydrive, PDF24
File uploader, chrome, RescueTime, Adguard, chrome notifications

In the tray: Win 10, Winpatrol, Avast, ProcessLasso, drive activity, System Explorer, Screenshot Captor, Ditto, network, speakers, and T-Clock

Oh yeah, you can see I have CrossHair running too. :-)
vi vi vi - editor of the beast

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2015, 09:05 PM »
LOL, x16wda  ;D

How many gigs of RAM you running?

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2015, 09:15 PM »
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In the expanded view:
  • Realtek HD Audio Manager (audio driver)
  • Microsoft Security Essentials
  • Borderless Gaming (puts games into "fullscreen" borderless windowed mode)
  • AdGuard
  • Display Fusion
  • Mumble
  • Gizmo
  • Screenshot Captor
  • BitTorrent Sync
  • Better DS3
  • VLC
  • Dyn Updater
  • Google Photos
  • Subsonic
  • Microsoft OneDrive
  • AMD Catalyst Control Center (video driver)
  • uTorrent
  • Join.me (can't figure out how to disable launch on startup)
  • Google Music Manager
  • MEGAsync
  • Google Chrome (Notifications)
  • Teamviewer

In the tray:
  • Speedfan (showing my GPU temperature in Celsius)
  • PortableApps.com Launcher
  • Windows 10 Upgrade
  • Dropbox
  • Task Manager
  • Steam

I usually close a few of these (such as join.me and MEGA) but I forgot to do that since my last reboot.

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2015, 05:31 AM »
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7+ Taskbar Tweaker
StrokeIt
idiot windows flag
FastStone Capture
Archivarius 3000
Breevy
Homemade autohotkey thingie
Ditto
USB thingie

Volume thingie
Pidgin
Wireless thingie

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2015, 10:12 AM »
  • Join.me (can't figure out how to disable launch on startup)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run -> join.me.launcher

Of course, whenever you use it, it adds it back :(

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2015, 07:51 PM »
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In the Taskbar Notification Area

- Wallpaper Cycler
- Notation
- Audion Switcher
- Steam
- Logitech Gaming Software

Hidden

- Synology Cloud Station
- Realtek Audio Thingy
- Intel Rapid Storage
- Windows Update Thingy
- Task Manager Thingy
- MSE
- LG Firmware Check
- Cubby
- Directory Opus
- Screenshot Captor
- Find and Run Robot
- HDD Sentinel
- HDD Sentinel
- UltraMon
- Windows Update Thingy
- Dropbox
- WinPatrol
- AMD Video
- Malwarebytes
- Copy
- OneDrive
- ESO Launcher (I actually haven't moused over it since I played ESO... its not actually running)
- WinPrivacy
- ESODB Updater Client
- Multiplicity
- AMD/Raptr
- TrueCrypt
- Borderless Gaming

Two that are missing right now are ResophNotes and ClipMate.

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2015, 10:03 PM »
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Win10 Upgrade notification
HDD Sentinel (Highest temp.)
MBAM (Web Protection disabled)
SyncBack Pro (No profiles running, hence the cross)
HDD Sentinel (HDD throughput)
Realtek HD Audio Manager
Bluetooth
CPUTemp (Temp, Load, Freq)
Safe Removal
DeskAngel
FARR
Logitech Gaming Software
GreenShot
CFoSSpeed
DOpus
Lights-Out Client
iDrive client
Everything
Windows Firewall Control
Windows moaning about Update Settings and SmartScreen
Yay! I've got internet access
... and speakers apparently.

Nothing hidden.

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2015, 02:30 PM »
Thanks for those hyperlinks, 4wd. I'm a long-time user of Faststone Capture, but I'm gonna give Greenshot a go...

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2015, 10:16 PM »
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In my Vertical TaskBar
In the Taskbar Notification Area

- The Bat!
- Vuze (Bittorrent Local)

Hidden

- Graphics Intel HR
- Synaptics Touchpad
- Intel Rapid Storage
- Battery Charge
- Clipboard Help + Spell
- Filebox Extender
- Transmission Remote GUI (Bittorrent in NAS)
- Locate 32
- Keyla
- Dropbox
- Workrave
- f.lux
- Genius Software for Wireless Trackball

Above the Notification Area

- Perfgraph CPU Use
- Perfgraph CPU Temp
- BatteryBar Free
SRTFilter Automatic Subtitle Editor & Renamer
Dualcopy If you use Teracopy or Fastcopy this can be interesting   - My N.A.N.Y 2018 Entry
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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #16 on: July 25, 2015, 11:36 PM »
... but I'm gonna give Greenshot a go...

You can also run it without installing by extracting the installer using UniExtract and copying the contents of the {app} folder wherever you like.

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2015, 11:50 PM »
but I'm gonna give Greenshot a go...

I did give it a go... But it apparently uses 15 times the memory used by FScapture, with one fifteenth of the feature set. Mouser's Screenshot Captor beats it handily.

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2015, 11:56 PM »
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Showing (unchecked):



Hidden (checked):

  • Logitech Gaming Software (my mouse)
  • DClock2 (displaying local time)
  • FileBox eXtender
  • Yahoo Widgets (I have some that I still use)
  • Dell Touchpad (automatically deactivated because I currently have a mouse plugged in)
  • Microsoft Security Essentials
  • Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile
  • Vector Clock (Carmino style, displaying current time in Melbourne)
« Last Edit: July 27, 2015, 05:19 AM by app103, Reason: I got called out by a developer for not fully supporting what I use by linking to everything, and not just the lesser known items. Had to fix that. »

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2015, 01:24 AM »
but I'm gonna give Greenshot a go...

I did give it a go... But it apparently uses 15 times the memory used by FScapture, ...

With Greenshot using 13.7MB out of my 12GB and at a cost of $19.95 less than FSCapture, I think I can live with it.
« Last Edit: July 26, 2015, 01:35 AM by 4wd »

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2015, 09:30 PM »
While we've kind of digressed into application memory usage, can I ask what those using the Dropbox client show it's memory usage as?

I installed it today just to sync a few MP3s onto my Lumia 530, (cheap media player), and Task Manager shows it using 140+MB at idle which, quite frankly, is ridiculous considering the iDrive client uses ~26MB and is continuously indexing/uploading atm.

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2015, 09:57 PM »
101MB on my laptop (w8), 21m on my 32-bit desktop (w7), and 29k on my 64-bit desktop (w7)

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #22 on: July 26, 2015, 11:27 PM »
can I ask what those using the Dropbox client show it's memory usage as?

...Task Manager shows it using 140+MB at idle

120MB on my desktop (idle)
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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #23 on: July 26, 2015, 11:38 PM »
Thanks for confirming it's not just me.

101MB on my laptop (w8), 21m on my 32-bit desktop (w7), and 29k on my 64-bit desktop (w7)

Interesting, I wonder if it's just a Win8 thing?
Using the 32bit version on Win8.1 x64 here.

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Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?
« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2015, 02:40 AM »
I installed it today just to sync a few MP3s onto my Lumia 530, (cheap media player), and Task Manager shows it using 140+MB at idle which, quite frankly, is ridiculous considering the iDrive client uses ~26MB and is continuously indexing/uploading atm.

191.2MB idle (using 32-bit version on Win7 x64)