What Is It?

The Wonderful Icon (TWI) is a small utility that sits in your system tray (windows notification area) and gives you access to numerous system commands, Windows manipulation/placement functions, hotkey options, sounds options, shutdown options and a user defined Start Menu. This is an amazing little application that has been around for a long time and never seems to have gotten the recognition it deserves.

Why Would You Want It?

If you want a simple, single click system tray icon that gives you access to all sorts of system commands using the mouse or hotkeys, combined with all sorts of user definable options then this is the one for you!

Don’t be put off by the lack of development in recent times and lack of a fancy GUI with icons - this is simplicity and functionality defined

It appears that The Wonderful Icon even works with Vista despite it the fact that it hasn’t been updated since Vista was released. N.B. I haven’t tested it on Vista, I am relying on comments posted elsewhere.

Why Do I Want It?

Because it gives me access to so many different functions in a system tray menu that I can define myself as well as defining items to be activated by Hotkeys. In fact I thing the most amazing thing about The Wonderful Icon is that it hasn’t been more widely recognised.

What Does It Do - The Essentials?

Summary:

• System Tray Menu
• Hotkey Functions
• Select Sounds
• Access Common Tasks
• Access Common System Commands

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

• Freeware

• Very Simple to Use
• Huge Range of Commands
• Good GUI for Options and User Defined Commands
• Easy Hotkey Definition
• Can be used as a “Semi”* Portable Application
  (*Comes with an installer and uses the Registry for settings)
  (*Registry Settings can be save to a *.reg file)
• Extensive Command Line Options (See FAQ page and Help-Command Line Options)
• Help file included
• Said to work with Vista
  (not tested by ProReviewer so maybe limited or unstable – try at your own risk)

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

• No Development for some considerable time
• Developer has asked for funds to help with Vista development but no sign of this happening.
• See FAQ page for more information on proposed development

More About What it Does in Detail:

Go to Page 2 for details and screenshots

Go to Page 3 for ProReviewer Summary

Popularity: 25% [?]

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