MR Tech Systray 3.0!! Originally released October 12th, 1997!!   Last Updated: February 15th, 2005

MR Tech Systray Help File

The primary functionality is the fact that it runs quietly in the system tray and allows you to run it by either left or right-clicking on the icon. Left clicking will open up the main windows containing several pieces of system information as well as a plethora of tools, tweaks and options. Many options are available quickly via right-click menu in your systray. And there are also several system-wide keyboard shortcuts that are created on startup.

Read more about the MR Tech Systray Installation Defaults Settings

Cleanup

• Manual & Scheduled Cleanups: The old cleanup features are being enhanced and super charged to allow you to clear your Netscape Navigator and/or MS Internet Explorer caches and the Windows temp folder -- plus delete lost fragments, cookies, and history files. You can also schedule cleanups, just check under the Cleanup menu.
  Note: to disable the prompts just uncheck the "Always Show Delete Prompts" from the tweaks menu.
  You can now also cleanup the Windows XP Prefetch directory and Empty the Recycle Bin.
  
  
• Windows XP Prefetch: control settings under the Tools menu, you can now set the level of Prefetching!!
  
  

Information

• System Information: If you load the app and click the systray icon, you'll see a good snapshot of your system.
  
  
• Display/Launch Common Apps: You can now display info and launch the follow from the main window: Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, AOL IM, MSN, Trillian and Yahoo messengers.
  
  
• MR Tech Log: I was having problems with my power supply so I added this so that the log would tell me how many times the computer was restarted. By reading the file you can see whether the computer was properly shutdown or not. I've also added the user logged in and how much space was recovered with deleting the Temp & System Directory temp files. Currently the file is saved to c:\MRTechRebootLog.txt . You can view or reset this file from the File menu.
  
  
• Save Snapshot: Let's you save your current system settings to a file (ctrl-s).
  
  

Keyboard

• Right & Left Click Options: the systray app gives you some shortcuts by right-clicking the systray icon and a ton of options if you left click on the icon. You also get links to Control Panel and many of its shortcuts, launch pad for RegEdit, SysEdit, WordPad, Notepad, and other common Windows modules. Beside shutting down, restarting and logging off this new version now let's you Lock Your Workstation, go on Standby or Hibernate!!!
  
  
• New Power Cleanup System-Wide Key: press the "Windows" key and the F12 key and it will delete all the temp files from your Windows temp, system and XP Prefetch directories and empties the recycle bin.
  
  
• New Super System-Wide Key Launcher: press the "Windows" key and key below to launch function:
  up/down: controls master speaker volume
  a: launches Add/Remove Programs or MR Tech Quick UnInstall
  c: launches Calculator
  g: launches google.com
  h: Hibernates computer
  j: runs MR Tech Quick Jump List
  i: launches Regedit
  k: launches Task Manager (NT/2000/XP only)
  n: launches Notepad
  o: Reboots computer
  p: runs MR Tech Internet Explorer Proxy settings
  s: shows/hides MR Tech Systray
  t: launches NT Services
  v: launches Device Manager
  w: launches Microsoft Windows Update
  y: launches System Properties
  
  
  Windows Defined Default Quick Keys:
  d: Minimize all windows: Press again to Maximize all Windows
  e: Windows Explorer
  f: Launch Find tool
  l: Lock Workstation
  m: Minimize all windows
  r: Launch Run Tool
  u: Launch the Utility Manager
  Pause/Break: System Properties
  
  
  
• Mouseovers: a lot of the main app's sections have info that pops up or features like, version #'s on tooltip for MS Messenger, Trillian and Yahoo, etc.
  
  
• Right-Click with /q /z: New options to the right-click of an EXE file, Run with /Q option and Run with /Q /Z options. This option can be disabled in the options menu. This is very useful for Microsoft updates so that it doesn't prompt you to install or reboot
• New Super Quick Systray & Key Launcher: hold key below while clicking systray icon:
  - shift: launch Internet Explorer
  - ctrl: popups up the Cleanup Menu
  - alt: popups up the Tool Menu
  

Tools

• Media Toolkit/MP3 Renamer: which takes care of mp3 filename pet peeves & sets a standard for naming them, feature includes full Artist & Song parsing, full mp3 file detailed information & ability to update the ID3 tag. With version 2.1 The interface and navigation have been updated, new rules and rule options have been added, as well as error checking has been enhanced. The file listing now supports the following extensions: MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, APE, OGG and VQF
  
  
• File Lister: I wanted a quick way of listing files into a text files so I added this little ditty. With 2.1, File Lister now remembers the last file used, appends .txt if you forgot and prompts to overwrite, now remembers the name of the last file used to save a list, now asks if you want the directory prefixed on each file, now also includes a directory header regardless and now asks you if you want to append to the list and reprompts you if you say yes.
  
  
• New Quick Jump List: This feature also you to define a list of directories that you want to open. This list is bound to the Windows-J key.
  
  
• New Quick Uninstall: This feature is meant to replace Microsoft's slow and aging "Add/Remove" applet. It is now bound to the Windows-A key and can be disabled in the Options menu. If disabled Windows-A key will bring up Micorsoft's "Add/Remove" tool.
  
  
• Change IE Proxy Settings: Again too many click to get to change these settings. It is bound to the Windows-P key and available from the right-click or Tools menu.
  
  
• Alpha-Numeric Phone Number Converter: Can't stand looking up 1-800-MATTRESS OR 1-800-QUICKIE, just copy or type your text and run this and you'll get the real phone number equivalent. It will also reformat the number with proper dashes.
  
  
• Stop Services: So many damned stupid services the new feature will give you control to be able to stop them. Look under the Tools|Stop Services menu. There is also now a configurable stop services option, just load up the 'Customize Services to Stop' and use the 'Stop All Checked Services Below' Option. You can also enable this behavior from startup from the Options menu, just select 'On Startup Stop Checked Services'.
  
  
• Save Current Window: The previous version allowed you to save the whole screen as a bitmap or graphics file, now with version 2.1 you can save a specific window.
  
  
• Sort List: I was just getting tired of loading Excel to sort a small list of lines so I added this.
  
  

Tweaks

• Tweaks/Hacks: There are also several "MR Tech Approved" tweaks/hacks that will have your computer humming like: Enable RegEdit Access, Disable Login Messages, Display Login Name, Increase Icon Resolution and a lot more. This feature isn't meant to replace the hundred other tweak utilities out there, it's just meant to reestablish the most annoying ones every time you login, like Not Clearing Login Name and Clearing Login Messages, etc. With 2.1 the Option menu is now an Option control panel.
  (Super Tweaks/Hacks Coming soon!!)
  
  
• Microsoft IE Multi-Threaded Tweak: by default the standard # of multiple downloads or threads that the browser will make to the server is 4 non proxy and 2 via proxy. If you have the bandwidth and memory, kicking this up will force more threads to be able to download more at the same time. Even though threads are reused and not reestablished, having more of them does speed things up if you have the bandwidth. On a system with 128megs of memory I've yet to experience any problems with having this at 32 threads. This will only get used if you are download several pages at the same time or if a page has A LOT of graphics, etc.
  
  
• Change Windows Install Path: This will allow you to change the path that Windows registered that you used as the primary install path. This is useful in case you remap drives or have the installation files on a harddrive, but want to move their location. This is available from the Tools menu in the main window.
  
  

Other

• Command Line Options:
  -temp = clears windows temp directory
  -sys = clears tmp files from windows system directories
  -purgens = Delete All Netscape 4.x cache, history & cookies
  -purgeie = Delete All Microsoft IE cache, history, cookies files & URL History
  -iecache = clears ie cache
  -nscache = clears netscape cache
  -restart = restarts windows (be careful with this one)
  -shutdown = shuts down windows (be careful with this one)
  -lock = lock workstation
  -logoff = logs off the workstation
  -upgrade = will do an Express Upgrade check
  -hibernate = activates hibernation
  -stopallservices = this stops all the services listed under the Tools|Stop Services menu
  -exit (closes app after running other command line parameters)
  
  
• Activate ScreenSaver: From the right-click menu you can now activate the screensaver.
  
  
• Express Upgrade: the Check for Newer Version now does a Express Upgrade without prompting if you agree to upgrade. Express Upgrade will also work with the Check for Newer Version at Startup option in the Options menu.
  
  
• Super Optimized: Applied several optimization techniques and changed compile method to reduce program size by 37%, added a Memory Optimization technique that I had been contemplating and the program now uses up to 90+% less active memory under Windows NT/2000/XP. That and I've removed any old unused variables, functions and subroutines.
  With version 2.1, the code has been gutted out and fine tuned with optimization, code cleanup, programming standards, etc. Enjoy!!
  
  

Application Shortcuts: Function Keys:

F1 =
F2 = Logoff
F3 = Standby
F4 = Restart
F5 = Refresh Stats
F6 = Power Down
F7 =
F8 = Shutdown Now
F9 = Lock Workstation
F10 =
F11 = Hibernate Now
F12 = Hide Window

Control Key Shortcuts:

Ctrl-A = Minimize All
Ctrl-B = Stop all Services Listed in the Stop Services menu under Tools
Ctrl-C = Launch Control Panel
Ctrl-D = Launch Defrag
Ctrl-E = Launch Regedit
Ctrl-F = Launch File Lister (c:\MRTechFileListing.txt)
Ctrl-G = Change Wallpaper
Ctrl-I = Restart IIS Web Service
Ctrl-J = Delete All Windows Junk
Ctrl-K = Stop All Checked Services Listed in the Stop Services menu under Tools
Ctrl-L = Launch Cleanup Scheduler
Ctrl-M = Launch MP3 Renamer
Ctrl-N = Launch Notepad
Ctrl-O = Open Snapshot (C:\MR Tech Snapshot-COMPUTERNAME.txt)
Ctrl-P = Alpha-Numeric Phone Number Converter
Ctrl-Q = Quit
Ctrl-R = Reset/Clear MR Tech Log (c:\MRTechRebootLog.txt)
Ctrl-S = Save Snapshot (C:\MR Tech Snapshot-COMPUTERNAME.txt)
Ctrl-T = Cleanup Temp Directory
Ctrl-U = Launch Calculator
Ctrl-V = View MR Tech Log (c:\MRTechRebootLog.txt)
Ctrl-W = Launch Wordpad
Ctrl-X = Launch List Sorter
Ctrl-Y = Cleanup System Directory
Ctrl-Z = Quick UnInstall