Contest: What's Running on my PC?

By Craig on June 10, 2003 in | 5 Comments

icons.gifTake a look at the image to the right. That's the Windows XP Notification Area from my main desktop at home.

The contest is to see if anyone can correctly identify all 16 icons -- if you think you can, post a Comment (below) with your answers. First person to correctly identify all 16 icons wins...um...well, something cool.

I'll give you a start: icon 15 is "Volume" (yeah, I know, that's a hard one). Anyway, I'll post the answers in a week, so get to work!

5 Comments

eric | June 10, 2003 8:02 PM

1 is netscape, 2 is ?, 3 is zonelabs, 4 is ?, 5 is ?, 6 is ?, heck i dont know msot of these. 8-(

mashby | June 11, 2003 9:57 AM

I've got all but two. Numbers 10 and 12 just have me stumped. Maybe what I have will help someone who DOES know those two, so here's my list:

01 - Netscape
02 - Trillian
03 - ZoneAlarm
04 - HotSync Manager
05 - WeSync
06 - Tight VNC
07 - ShoutCast
08 - Apache
09 - Creative Labs Configuration
10 -
11 - Microsoft ActiveSync
12 -
13 - Atomic Clock Sync (http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/)
14 - Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition
15 - Volume
16 - Safely Remove Hardware

Edwin | June 13, 2003 5:56 AM

Number 12 is Logitech iTouch.
Too bad I don't know which icon number 10 is.

mashby | February 10, 2005 9:05 AM

Craig,

So what were the final answers?

Craig | June 7, 2006 10:59 PM

The last one remaining to be named was #10: Second Copy (backup software) -- pretty obscure, I know. :-)