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- Icon Corral
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- The Icon Corral allows you to hide minimized programs into the
- system tray (down on the task bar by the clock). This is good
- for reducing taskbar clutter caused by programs such as Schedule+
- and PPP dialer, which are almost always minimized anyway.
-
- The first time you run The Icon Corral, you'll be presented with the
- Icon Corral main dialog. From here you can see and modify the
- list of icons to put on the tasktray. Pressing Add will lead
- you to the Spec dialog. Here you can specify a window to put on the
- tray. If you want to hide calculator, for example, you can type
- 'cal*' into the Title Spec box. Below the title spec box, you can
- optional specify a different icon if you don't like the icon that
- Icon Corral finds.
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- Once the configuration is complete, choose the Hide button from
- Icon Corral's main dialog. When Icon Corral finds any minimized program
- that meets spec, it will remove it from the taskbar and add an icon
- to the tasktray. Left clicking on one of these tray icons will
- restore the corresponding program. Right clicking allows you to do
- the normal context menu stuff plus it will let you configure or exit
- the Icon Corral.
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- It is recommended that you put Icon Corral in your startup folder.
-
- NEW BONUS: Icon Corral adds 'Disconnect' to Win95 PPP Dialer's context
- menu.
-
- FAQ:
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- > Can you set it up to automatically put things into the tray at startup?
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- Just put icon corral, and shortcuts to whatever programs you want to
- start in the tray in your startup folder. You may have to change
- the properties of some of the shortcuts to make their programs
- start miniminized. However, do not set Icon Corral to start minimized (run
- it normal).
-
- > It would be handy to have an option for each program to hide it from
- > the taskbar whether or not it is minimized or not.
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- Sorry. I can't do that without the source to taskbar!
-
- > The minimized programs dissapear from ALT+TAB
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- I know. Can't do much about it.
-
- -Eric Askilsrud
- erask@cs.washington.edu
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