The System Tray is in the far right bottom of your screen. It shares space with the clock (and let’s face it we all love the clock, it’s how we see when it’s time to go home). In the System Tray are icons for processes that are running on your computer, and tools that will let you change some computer settings. When you mouse over a System Tray icon, a little popup will tell you what that icon is for. ‘Round here you will usually see Netware Services (big red N), Volume (to adjust your speaker volume), Remote Management (so DIT can fix your computer without driving all over everywhere), icons for your graphics card, for Novell Desktop tools, and for McAfee Anti-Virus, and a couple more. The System Tray is where wireless users go to pop up the “View Available Wireless Networks” feature. The System Tray is the quickest way to get to Print Manager (when there’s a print job in process). The System Tray is one part of your Windows desktop you will be glad you got to know.
One thing to remember – different computers will show different icons in the system tray. Use your left mouse, and right mouse, to explore the processes and tools in the System Tray. Especially…