I know. This is basically silly, but some system tray icons bug the hell out of me. Here part of my current setup. See the mushroom sticking out like a sore thumb? I love Cobian Backup, and have recently installed it as a service, but the tray icon is making me itch. Codenamed “Amanita”, version 9 of course needed a mushroom icon, but compared to the black moon icon of version 8 this is pretty bad. A slightly more sedate colour scheme would be nice, as well a proper anti-aliasing.
Unfortunately, I can find no option to change the icon under Vista Home Premium, so I guess I’ll have to live with it. Seen against the greater scheme of things this is of course only a minor gripe, but if anyone knows an easy fix, please drop me a comment.
Can’t you selectively hide icons in Vista like you can in XP? In XP you right-click the clock on the system tray, click Properties, click Hide inactive icons, and click Customize to choose which icons to obscure. XP is dumb and often forgets per-icon settings so I got fed up and now choose to show just them all.
P.s., What’s up with running both Miranda and Gtalk?
Comment by Brian — May 18, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
Hi Brian. You’re right. I could opt to hide the icon altogether, but that would render it useless. There are a few handy features in the right click menu.
Miranda does Jabber quite well, but I use Gtalk’s voice feature a lot. For all other networks, Miranda is my preferred IM client.
Comment by Roy — May 19, 2008 @ 7:49 am
I used to use a program called “Resource Hacker” to change the tray icon on Winamp to match my Windows theme. It has a feature for you to replace icons in the EXE and should work fine for you.
Comment by Viper007Bond — July 11, 2008 @ 6:06 am