SysTray Management

[Guest]

Perhaps I'm one of the few who resents clutter in the SysTray, but I'm
hopeful someone has a solution. Though I have used the
less-than-straight-forward "Hide the Microsoft AntiSpyware icon on the system
tray" setting (if I didn't hide it ON the system tray, where else could I
"hide" it? How about simple English like, "Display SysTray icon?"), this
thing is worse than Freddie!!! Every time a scheduled scan runs, it comes
back! It doesn't even matter if it's a Friday! Does anyone know how to kill
this thing for good? Wooden stake? Silver bullet? I would even hang garlic
on my monitor if I found out it would help!

 

[Gene]

I have MS AntiSpyware run a scheduled scan every night. The icon never
appears in my System Tray unless I select it and open it. Then it remains
visible for a day or two and then hides itself as it should. There must be
something else going on in your system.

(Real encouraging, huh?)

Gene

 

[Bill Sanderson]

You are describing the functionality of the beta1 product. This is a bug.
I don't have a workaround for it, I'm afraid.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

CaribbeanBlues is describing the behavior that happens when you've
explicitly set the system tray icon not to show--this is an option within
Microsoft Antispyware. It works fine, until a scheduled scan occurs, and
then you get the icon back. This is unrelated to the tray-hiding issues
which also have their bugs.

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