? Tool to restore inactive tray icons after explorer crash / Access inaccessible apps

[Alec Soroudi]

Hi,

I'm finding that EXPLORER crashes often. I have not been able to find
out what is causing it and so am having to deal with it. Besides the
inconvenience of explorer constantly crashing, the icons in the system tray
disappear when explorer is restarted and are not restored unless they
change. There are some applications that do not modify their icons very
often (only when there is something to NOTIFY about). Therefore, those
icons are gone and not restored for quite a long time.

What I want is a way of accessing those applications, either by using
some utility that will hook into the apps (PIDs are available but no
windows), OR, by some utility that will send Windows messages to the PID
(emulate single/double/right/etc. clicking the tray icon).

So, does anyone know of a utility that can do either of the above?


Thanks.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Alec,

Not exactly what you are looking for, but....some of the workarounds are
listed in the link below to prevent having to log off to get the icons back
and I also have a new script that enables and/or disables the icons that for
some refreshes them as well. That edit is on line 194 (right hand side)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

The before mentioned information is here:

Troubleshooting the Notification Area
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_n.htm#na


/top10faqs.htm

 

[Alec Soroudi]

Well I couldn't find anything that was what I was looking for but
there's plenty of good stuff there. I got the TweakUI->Control Panel script
a while ago.

I'm going to look into programmatically forcing all apps/app with
specific PID to redraw it's tray icon.

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Alec
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[Alec Soroudi]

Oh, and I can use PC Magazine's Tray Magician which works like a charm.
It's just that I have to install it and run it on startup so it's no good if
it's not installed when it's needed, otherwise it's fine.

PS Tray Factory is probably good as well, but it's shareware; then again
PC Magazine's utilities aren't free anymore either :| - unless you got them
before they got greedy or can find them somewhere


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Alec
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