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TrayTip on Windows 2000 with _L

Started by Guest , Jan 29 2012 08:59 PM

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#1 Guests

Guests

Posted 29 January 2012 - 08:59 PM

Hi,

Traytip does not appear in Windows 2000 Pro SP4. Tested with AutoHotkey 1.1.05.06 Unicode x32, and R53 (the oldest one I have). However, it works with Basic.

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TrayTip, TrayTip Sample, This will be displayed for 5 seconds., 5, 1

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced >> EnableBalloonTips

I did not find this value on Windows 2000. So I created it and set it to 1 and rebooted the machine and ran the script but traytip does not appear. Basic works even it is set to 0.

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#2 jaco0646

Fellows
3163 posts

Posted 29 January 2012 - 10:18 PM

Windows 2000 is officially supported... with "certain updates". To my knowledge those updates have never been documented, but users have reported in the past that updates beyond service pack 4 are necessary for certain AHK_L features. Microsoft released a security-related "update rollup" after sp4, as well as many additional hotfixes. Have you installed every available update?

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#3 Guests

Guests

Posted 29 January 2012 - 11:11 PM

Have you installed every available update?

Yes, all the updates have been installed.

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#4 Lexikos

Administrators
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Posted 30 January 2012 - 09:27 AM

Last time I updated the home page, I almost wrote "Windows 2000 support is limited." This has multiple meanings: some features may not work, and I have very limited interest in debugging problems that only occur on Windows 2000. Microsoft doesn't support compiling for Windows 2000 with Visual C++ 2010; the only reason AutoHotkey_L works at all is that a user (fincs?) pointed me at a cheap workaround.

That said, I did some testing. TrayTip works on Windows 2000 on revision 16, but apparently not revision 17 or later. The reason isn't obvious to me. Perhaps someone with more interest can figure it out. I believe both revisions were compiled with Visual C++ 2008, so it's probably not a compiler problem.