Program name: WinTime


File name: wintime.exe located in the %windows% directory.


Description: A very useful little tool that hasn't been updated in a while. Version 8.3 can be downloaded from Winsite at http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000018285

The download from there is 114k, the running executable on my PC is 29k.

By default it places three icons in the system tray. The first icon is the only one that's a required part of the program. If you regular click (left click) on it, you get a menu consisting of all your desktop icons, so you don't have to minimize all your programs just to run an entry off your desktop. If you alternate click (right click) on the icon, you get a menu with options for things like minimizing/maximizing all windows, hiding desktop icons, start button, etc; a preferences option, and a close option. Hovering over the icon brings up a tooltip telling how long Windows has been running.

The other two icons that it puts by default allow different options depending on whether you left click them or right click them, and can be configured in the preferences options. The list of things available are menus for: desktop, launch, windows, drives, resoultion, and custom folder. The default for the first icon is left click which gets a launch menu (set via the preferences menu, it's a list of programs that can be run), and right clicking the first icon gets the windows option which allows you to, for any open window, to hide it, minimize to the system tray, or bring it back from either of these two states. Regular clicking the second icon brings up the list of drives on the system, and then clicking on one of them opens up that drive. Right clicking the second icon brings up a menu of screen resolutions/color depths/refresh rates.

You can also set (via preferences) to auto start the screensaver when the cursor is in one particular corner, or to prevent it from starting in another corner, and set it so the minimize to tray works by alternate clicking on the minimize button for a window. By default, it will not automatically start, to set it to do so, after installation, you must run it via its start menu icon, then go into preferences, and set it to launch on system startup. You can also disable it here too.

I first found it back in the Win98 days, and have been using it on all versions of windows that I've used since (98FE, 98SE, NT4, 2k, and XP). I've also tested it on ME and it seemed to work there too.

Regedit, msconfig, and the other traditional ways of preventing it from starting will all work fine.


Name -> Data: WinTime -> C:\\WINNT\\wintime.exe

Location in the startup list: http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php?filter=wintime


Is it needed: User's Choice


Is there a shortcut available: Yes. By default it creates a folder on the startup menu named "Backbone Software" and inside that folder it creates the WinTime icon.

Googling on "Backbone Software" leads to a company in Norway that seems to have no connection to the WinTime program.

Hi jes1994,

I have added WinTime, wintime.exe to the startup list.

Thanks,

Rex (Trpm)

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