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Hello,

I'm using Thunderbird as mailclient with the tool Thunderbird-Tray. This puts Thunderbird in the systray.

With an application (like Firefox) I start it with this script:



But this doesn't work if the application is in the systray. Is there a way to solve this for Thunderbird, which is in the systray and not in the taskbar.

The systray is one of Microsoft's innumerable blunders... it's mysterious and hard to access as a programmer (like Chris). We could really use a lot more options that have to do with the systray, and I'm sure Chris would deliver, were there an easy way to do it. The closest we've been able to come in most cases is PixelSearch, or the improvised "ImageSearch" that works better in some cases.

In this case, I would suggest trying this line of code (at the top of the script.)



This allows AHK to detect hidden windows for commands like IfWinExist. Almost every application that's "minimized to the tray" is really just hidden, in my experience.

Yes, it works. Here is the complete script.