Hide inactive icons on XP

[Viviana Vc]

Hi all,


For some reason that I won't detail here the icon from my application
doesn't behave nice when it is hidden because it is inactive on a Win XP
(this feature, of hidden an icon when inactive is only on XP).

So I would like programaticaly to set just for my application the
behavior "Always show". In other words, I would like programatically to
do the following setting: taskbar->properties->hide inactive
icons->customize->my app -> behavior->always show.

I thought that this is something adjustable from the registry, but I
wasn't able to find the registry setting for this.

Can somebody please help? Any hints will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Viv

 

[Squire]

Right click the task bar and Properties,
Click Hide inactive Icons and Customize,
Under Behavior, double click the Icon you want,
Make selection.
Click OK, Apply OK


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[Viviana Vc]

Yes, I already know that
I want to do this programmatically and I don't know how. Any hint?

Viv

 

[Guest]

Yes, I already know that
I want to do this programmatically and I don't know how. Any hint?

Viv

http://www.splinterware.com/products/wincron.htm
You can use the Run Now tool and create a shortcut to do what you
describe. You can also schedule the action at a particular time to run
automatically if you wish.
gm

 

[Viviana Vc]

I don't think you understood my needs ...
I would like programmatically to do this, so that when a user installs
my software during the installation I would like to do the change. As
the users won't do it by themself I would like to do it
programmatically, and I hoped that this is a setting in the registry but
I couldn't find any

Viv

 

[ben]

I don't think you understood my needs ...
I would like programmatically to do this, so that when a user installs
my software during the installation I would like to do the change. As
the users won't do it by themself I would like to do it
programmatically, and I hoped that this is a setting in the registry but
I couldn't find any

Viv

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Try tray pilot light.I think this is a great program to hide system tray icons
http://www.colorpilot.com/hidetray.html
download link
http://www.colorpilot.com/load/traylt.exe
90 kb

 

[Viviana Vc]

At least I found out what inactive means:
http://www.sanx.org/tipShow.asp?articleRef=188
"Icons are considered inactive by the operating system when the state -
a combination of the icon image and tooltip value - does not change."

 

[Guest]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\EnableAutoTray RegDword 0x0

either log off /on or kill explorer and restart explorer to make effective.