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Is there a way to show the icon of the hidden window always in the taskbar. I usually minimize a window to tray and forget about it. By default taskbar hides them after few seconds. Is there a way to make the icon always visible?

This sounds like a phenomenal addition/standalone script to me, any chance you've tried it or could point me in the right direction do take a crack at it?

Necrophilia strikes again!

I'm using the WinTrayMin script in Vista-64bit, and it works well EXCEPT the following apps don't show an icon in the tray, only a blank spot:
MS Paint, Notepad, Calculator, and any CHM compiled help file I've tried.
All other MS products, and every 3rd-party app I've tried are just fine.

I tried both the original sequence to pull the icon, and Art's modification, but neither worked for me, and I don't understand DllCall very well, so I don't know what to troubleshoot.

Can anybody advise what I might try to fix this?

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Antique Newbie

I think the problem might lie in some applications being 64bit and use differently-sized memory structures.

This script was written for AHK Basic, i.e., is compatible only with 32bit and ANSI.

I was assuming he was running a 32bit AHK version on an x64 system and had problems with x64 procresses.

Since it's not clear what AHK version is used, please specify that.

Sorry, I should have included that I have used the script with AHK Basic, and with AHK_L ansi, on Vista-64-bit.

As I said, all apps display their icons in the tray *except* the four I listed.
I kind of thought that if it was a 64-bit problem, *all* icons would fail.

So maybe it is a very odd compatibility problem that only affects specific applications running under Vista 64-bit. I have no other 64-bit computer to test with, so that's the end of my trouble-shooting.

Any ideas?

I tested my custom script with both 32/64-bit UNICODE builds in my 64bit WIN7, and it worked. During the test, however, I noticed that Notepad et al didn't respond to WM_GETICON. I suppose this was the reason why I had chosen SHGetFileInfo than WM_GETICON. Anyway, I updated the posted script, to remove caching of the hIcons. Re-download it.

The updated script is still for AHK Basic, i.e., not compliant with 64bit and/or UNICODE. Although I did nothing to make it UNICODE compatible, due to the chosen APIs, it'll almost work with 32bit UNICODE build too.

Ah, god bless you sir, you are a true gentleman.
Thank you so much for taking the time to fix that.

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Antique Newbie

I'm on Win7 x64 and I want to traymin a window with functions from this script (dl'd from the first message in the thread). I get my window's ID with "WinGet, myAppID, ID, myApp", then I call WinTrayMin(myAppID). The app gets minimized to the taskbar, not the systray. Is WimTraymin incompatible with Win7 x64? I copied the two relevant functions to my script (WM_SHELLHOOKMESSAGE() and WinTrayMin()) and I can verify with a msgbox from within WinTrayMin (msgbox %hWnd%) that my window ID is coming in OK.

This is a great script, thanks Sean!
I have one question, what is the purpose of the label at the very top, because that label never seems to be invoked from anywhere?
Is that somehow executed in the auto-execute itself?

I have tried several things but failed. How can I modify WinTrayMin.ahk so clicking on the Close [X] button will minimize the active window to the tray instead of sending all of them to the taskbar? thanks...