Windows 10: Change tray icon info/overlay text

Discus and support Change tray icon info/overlay text in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hello, when you put the mouse cursor over a tray icon, some text is displayed, which is most often the name of that icon's app. What kind of app/editor... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by unko, Sep 13, 2016.

  1. unko Win User

    Change tray icon info/overlay text


    Hello, when you put the mouse cursor over a tray icon, some text is displayed, which is most often the name of that icon's app. What kind of app/editor would let you change it?

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  2. Windows strange overlay

    This is caused by the third party application "system explorer". I can see the tray icon to the lower right on the screenshot. Right click it and close it, and the overlay should stop appearing.
     
    Sebastian Meta, Sep 13, 2016
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  3. Shortcut to disabled Local Area Connection can't re-enable it

    I'm running the fall update to the Anniversary release of Win 10. I go into Network & Sharing Center and open Change Adapter Settings and can pull up its context menu to Disable | Enable the connection there fine, the former putting a red
    X overlay on the tray's Internet Access icon, but if I then drag the network connectoid to the desktop to create a shortcut to it, so I can right-click on that to select Disable | Enable the connection from the DT, the former again works fine,
    putting a red X overlay on the tray's Internet Access icon, but there's no Enable on the right-click context menu of the desktop icon to click. Win 7 provides that.

    One has to open the source from which the shortcut was created to re-enable the connection. Enabling from the shortcut also used to work on Win 7 SP1. Apparently, when drag-creating a shortcut from Change Adapter Settings, its Enable attribute isn't carried
    along to the shortcut.
     
    Helge Skjeveland, Sep 13, 2016
    #3
  4. Berton Win User

    Change tray icon info/overlay text

    Since most icons are embedded in an application's .exe/executable file you'd have to rewrite that file to make changes to it. That probably would require permission from the publisher of the program or otherwise be illegal.
     
    Berton, Sep 13, 2016
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  5. unko Win User
    Let's say it's about a free app. There are some apps that let you change the exe icon. But that text.. I didn't find.
     
    unko, Apr 4, 2018
    #5
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