systray

[Kevin Zimmerman]

I have had a bug I think many have had where the systray icons all do not
appear. To remedy it you must log off and log back on. I was told here SP2
would correct this but alas... Same thing. Has anyone figured this one
out?

Kevin

 

[Kelly]

One post was enough, Kevin. And yes, this has been an issue for a great
while.

 

[OShah]

One post was enough, Kevin. And yes, this has been an issue for a great
while.

Making those tray icons reappear when explorer restarts is a problem for
the software developer, not Windows.

There's a simple solution to make those tray icons reappear, but it
involves some work by the programmer.

<jargon>
They need to register the Window message "TaskBarCreated". Then, when this
message is sent to the Windows procedure, call Shell_NotifyIcon again so
their tray icon reappears.
</jargon>
System tray programmers will know what that means.

For you, Kelly and Kevin and everyone else, you need to annoy every one of
those software developers to take a read at the following Url (Especially
the section labelled "Taskbar creation Notification"):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_int/shell_int_programming/
taskbar.asp

This page should explain all, but if they need spoon feeding, I can post
some sample code. Way off topic though.

If they refuse to read/learn, sack them, (or hire someone else, or create a
petition, or write humiliating journal articles, whatever. Do whatever you
can to move them away from system tray programming).


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oshah
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Error Reporting -> Choose Programs
-> Do not report errors for these programs:

Acrobat.exe
waol.exe

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[Kelly]

Hi,

As per your note: <Quote>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...e/shell_int/shell_int_programming/taskbar.asp

This page should explain all, but if they need spoon feeding, I can post
some sample code. Way off topic though.

</Quote>

I would suggest sending an email here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;114491

And/or creating a write-up including the sample code and I can forward it
for you to the pertaining teams via MS.

 

[OShah]

Hi,

As per your note: <Quote>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en- us/shellc
b
ar.asp

This page should explain all, but if they need spoon feeding, I can
post some sample code. Way off topic though.

</Quote>

I would suggest sending an email here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;114491

And/or creating a write-up including the sample code and I can forward
it for you to the pertaining teams via MS.

MS require teaching on how to program Tray Icons? Which Icons are they?
It can't be the network icons (they reappear fine).

Actually, The only icon from Microsoft I can think of that doesn't
reappear is Task Manager. I'm not sure what's wrong here, since Task
Manager goes through all the trouble of registering the
"TaskbarCreated" Message, receiving the message in its message loop, but
hten not bothering updating its tray icon (almost as if it's doing on
purpose).

Do you know which Microsoft icons have trouble reappearing on the
desktop?

--
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oshah
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Error Reporting -> Choose
Programs
-> Do not report errors for these programs:

Acrobat.exe
waol.exe

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