ouden: I'm currently working on a Longhorn clone that incorporates something similar to what you are suggesting. Essentially, it works like Windows XP's systray. There are two modes; expanded and compressed, with the number of icons visible in compressed mode user defined. Switching between the two modes is done via a button between the taskbar and systray (ala win XP). This was all done via mzscript... it took a while to get it working right but now it functions perfectly. Very fast too. 400MHz Pentium II btw.