Hide inactive icons on XP

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

Viv
 
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
 
Viviana Vc said:
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
 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\EnableAutoTray RegDword 0x0

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