Language Bar to System Tray

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Robert Morley

Hi all,

Sorry if this has been asked a million times before, but I've tried Google
and Google Groups and only got a whole lot of false leads. As you might
guess from the subject line, what I'd like to do is move the mini language
bar (the one that just shows "EN", "FR", or whatever) to the System Tray. I
don't want to remove it, I don't want it on the task bar NEXT to the System
Tray, I want it IN the System Tray, just like it used to do on Win2k, etc.
Is this possible in XP or is this another case of MS telling me that there
are five lights (or that the chocolate ration has gone up, or whatever other
analogy you prefer)?



Thanks,
Rob
 
Robert,

I am a coder & always write applications that sit in the system tray because
its just normal. Maybe in XP they never used the ShellNotifyIcon API to
accomplish just that.

There are two applications that move things to the system tray from the
Taskbar I know of, but they do it by hooking & if the program errors then
your computer will become unstable

Here's the free application, but it needs to be running all the time:

http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm

Second application costs money:

http://www.eusing.com/hidewindows/bosskey.htm

Amittedly, I have 2000 & 2003 here & would never, ever, ever waste 1 byte of
disc space installing XP & haven't tried it, but its one suggestion worth a
go

Hopefully, this helps,
 
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