A Windows Tray problem that drives me nuts

6/19/2007 6:00:33 PM #

You are not alone in this, it's annoying bug, and sometimes becomes very annoying.

Mohammed Nasman

6/19/2007 8:59:12 PM #

I remeber a tip: Just set the window that owns tray-icon popup menu to foreground even if it's hidden and the problem should go away.

That tip actually worked fine in my application).

Unknown

6/19/2007 9:00:22 PM #

(edit: the window that owns the tray-icon I should say)

Unknown

6/19/2007 9:06:59 PM #

FWIW, I linked to the tip mentioned here in the comments and I'm not sure that fixes the problem in all cases.

Steve Trefethen

6/20/2007 7:44:00 AM #

It usually get around this by left clicking on the tray icon (making it to get the focus) and then right click on it... 90% of the times it works.

Lluis

6/20/2007 3:17:08 PM #

Hi Lluis,
Yeah, there's a work-around but it's been there for years and years and for some reason apparently it's not something Microsoft can address in the shell itself. I'm not sure I've seen it in Vista yet but I'll be looking for it.

Steve Trefethen

6/21/2007 7:21:38 AM #

In vista in rare ocasions it happens also but not so much as in XP.... What really annoys me in Vista is that the file explorer does not remembers the folder views as in XP. I get always star ratings and movie length at the first folder level of all folders. I tryed it all, (of course I have set the setting of "remember folder view") setting the folder type, tweaking with the registry etc... no success...

Lluis

6/21/2007 6:57:10 PM #

Hi Lluis,
  Yeah, IMO MS botched Explorer in Vista is a pain to use and has many, many problems.

Steve Trefethen