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What Does Your System Tray Look Like?

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Opened mine today and realized I need to do some housekeeping. Then got curious about what the average nerd.. er.. tpu user's looks like.

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Mine gives away that I'm a gamer with a cybersecurity degree and VPN obsession (and some jetbrains hobbyist coding for good measure)
 
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Nuked the windows a few days ago. Funny how I had dozens of programs installed but after starting new, I only needed like ten.
 
Bare minimum utility. If I ever go back to gaming and development, it will load up by about a dozen.

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I have 5 visible in my System Tray/Notification area, and 5 hidden. Probably the most important visible icon is the one for Core Temp I use to monitor my CPU temp in real time. Three are for security apps, and one is for MailWasher Pro, my spam blocker/email handler.

It should be noted that each System Tray icon (hidden or visible) is indicative of a currently running app! It may just be a tiny system tray app, or it could be the full blown program, minimized to the tray - or even both.

Regardless, each of those System Tray icons is consuming systems resources (CPU and RAM). Not a lot individually, but if you have 20 running, it can add up.

So, if you don't need a System Tray app, stop it from starting with Windows, preferably from within the app. Alternatively, you can disable it within Task Manager > Startup.
 
Cool concept! Here's mine:
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Top: Wallpaper Engine, Discord, Nvidia App, Elecom Mouse Assistant, Tuta Mail
Bottom: Steam, Jagex Launcher, Sunshine
 
Opened mine today and realized I need to do some housekeeping. Then got curious about what the average nerd.. er.. tpu user's looks like.

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Mine gives away that I'm a gamer with a cybersecurity degree and VPN obsession (and some jetbrains hobbyist coding for good measure)
Some excess padding there on the UI design.

Right now I have 12 icons. Including the system icons.

3rd party as follows.

ISLC, this I dont usually run but have it going temporarily to see if it improves audio quality with the timer resolution.
Sound blaster command.
Steam.
System informer
WinNUT
Telegram
AutoPowerOptionsOK
Onedrive
DU Meter
Keeppass
7+ taskbar tweaker
NetTime
WFC
 
The fewer the better I say :)

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each of those System Tray icons is consuming systems resources (CPU and RAM)

Ya, since moving to 64GB of RAM I've gotten sloppy with keeping my system lean.
 
Steam running now but others in place of it could be as i do not buy all my games from steam.

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left volume is Eartrumpet, Full volume control and mute per app. Github or ms appstore
Old LGS (G110)
new LHUB (G402)
Comodo firewall
Asus mobo temp/power
Realtek SupremeFX
windows own volume
windows update (always wait a few days to see if any updates is going to F everything)
 
I feel naked without GPU/CPU temp/power in taskbar, probably better ways of doing it these days, but old habits and all.

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AB -- RTSS -- GPU temp/pwr -- CPU temp/pwr -- nVidia shmoo -- Topping DAC -- HWINFO -- BT -- Tinywall
 
Also YYYY/MM/DD is the only true way.
 
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