Heh I hate icons filling up the task bar :)
And I wonder how did you manage to live without an optical mouse till this day.
I don't even remember the days without them.

Maybe it hooks the mouse messages to do your button customizations? I'm guessing that if you remove the application, your buttons will just do the standard windows mouse-button thing. No "open outlook when I click this button" customizations.

Quote:Original post by LachlanL
Maybe it hooks the mouse messages to do your button customizations? I'm guessing that if you remove the application, your buttons will just do the standard windows mouse-button thing. No "open outlook when I click this button" customizations.

Actually yeah, that makes sense.

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Unfortunately this isn't a sign of modern times, it pretty much started since the first apps were released for Windows 95. Pretty much every program had a system tray icon and back then with 640x480 and 800x600 being quite common they were a real menance too taking up masses of space on your task bar.

Most programs that stick an icon down there don't live for very long on my system. The only time I really want something there is a service that I want to interact with (not just for configuration). My most hated one is Quick Time that constantly adds itself to the startup scripts and sticks the annoying icon down there, although I've moved to alternatives now that are much better anyway.

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I bet some clever person has built a wrapper to stop them getting in the systray?