System Tray Restorer - Non-background

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Looking for a small freeware app to restore system tray after Windows
Explorer "crash". Specifically not a background-running application.

thanks
 
Alan said:
Looking for a small freeware app to restore system tray after Windows
Explorer "crash". Specifically not a background-running application.
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A nice thing about tray manager is that it allows you to create a sub
menu of under used tray icons as well as restoring after a crash. I
dunno about 'not background running'... if it is not running how does
it know Explorer has crashed?

This is the first working dowmload link I found that doesn't link to
PC Mag:

http://ringonoki.net/tool/kaizou/tma.html
 
Terry said:
A nice thing about tray manager is that it allows you to create a sub
menu of under used tray icons as well as restoring after a crash. I
dunno about 'not background running'... if it is not running how does
it know Explorer has crashed?

This is the first working dowmload link I found that doesn't link to
PC Mag:

http://ringonoki.net/tool/kaizou/tma.html
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I've actually used Tray Manager before and quite liked it. But I ran
across YTrayMagic at
http://www.cascadelines.com/Pages/WindowsandBrowsersTips/Tip50.html
and at 225KB, rather liked the idea of having this for the express
purpose of just restoring tray icons. I presumed this ability might
exist without the need for a backgrounded process. YTrayMagic sits in
the tray, but can be activated by hot key too. I was hoping for a simple
runnable .exe to do this task. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree?
 
Alan said:
I've actually used Tray Manager before and quite liked it. But I ran
across YTrayMagic at
http://www.cascadelines.com/Pages/WindowsandBrowsersTips/Tip50.html
and at 225KB, rather liked the idea of having this for the express
purpose of just restoring tray icons. I presumed this ability might
exist without the need for a backgrounded process. YTrayMagic sits in
the tray, but can be activated by hot key too.
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I've used YTrayMagic before also, but prefer Tray Manager because of
its, er, tray management functionality.
I was hoping for a simple
runnable .exe to do this task. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree?
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Dunno; I'm not technically savvie enough to know... it seems to me to
be asking a lot of a prog to know what was in a crashed sys tray
before it was launched. Doesn't YTrayMagic need to launch before other
tray apps in order to know what they are?
 
Terry said:
Dunno; I'm not technically savvie enough to know... it seems to me to
be asking a lot of a prog to know what was in a crashed sys tray
before it was launched. Doesn't YTrayMagic need to launch before other
tray apps in order to know what they are?
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Yes, it does. Maybe this is a necessity. I do know that it takes less
than 5 lines of code for an application to monitor for the system tray
(re)creation message and re-add its own icon. I've programmed it many
times myself and I guess that's why it irks me so much when apps don't
re-add their own tray icons. :) You may well be right with your
assumption though... in fact, the more I think about it, the more I
think you must be correct. Oh well, Tray Manager here we go... it could
do with a tidy up anyway. ;-)

cheers
 
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