If you killed systray.exe, you lost those notification icons. So people thought, "Ah, systray must be the component that manages those icons, and I bet its name

If you killed systray.exe, you lost those notification icons. So people thought, "Ah, systray must be the component that manages those icons, and I bet its name is 'system tray'." Thus began the misconception that we have been trying to eradicate for over eight years On every Microsoft OS since the beginning of time, "sys" has always stood for "system" (as in config.sys would mean the configuration for the system as a whole). You can't honestly tell me that systray.exe does not mean "system tray executable" before the doc scrub.