The System Tray

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The System Tray

The system tray includes icons relating to programs currently running and displays the clock.



To change the clock settings see: setting date & time in the first part of our windows 98 tutorial.

As with the quick launch bar there are normally a couple of icons residing in the system tray, in our example (fig 1.3) we have 2 icons.

- Volume Icon, clicking this icon will display the volume control dialogue box from which you can adjust the sound settings of your PC.

- Task Scheduler Icon, clicking this icon will open the task scheduler which can be used to run a program or maintenance task at a scheduled time.

As well as the default icons, the system tray will contain icons of some of the other programs that are run when you start up Windows 98. Some typical programs would be your firewall (if you have one), printer status monitors and some messenger programs.

If you want you can stop programs running by right clicking and using their menu to close them, or if you want to stop a program loading when you start Windows 98 one option is to use the msconfig utility (we will cover msconfig in future sections).