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Re: [XP Pro] Windows XP volume tray icon disappears each time @
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FWIW, this "applet" has had an interesting history. People have often assumed that the "SysTray" applet 'controlled' or even 'was' the "tray" (i.e., Notification Area on the Taskbar). It does/is not.
One can figure out exactly what "SysTray" does by looking into the stobject.dll. This is officially called the "Systray shell service object" and it seems to have 4 components:
•Volume Control (links to SNDVOL32.EXE)
•Power Meter (links to shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL PowerCfg.cpl)
•Safely Remove Hardware (links to shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll)
•Something to do with Accessibility Options (Sticky Keys, Mouse Keys, Filter Keys), but I cannot tell exactly what! That seems to be all it does. And the Power Meter is really only useful for laptop computers.
Now, Microsoft talks about an executable file (systray.exe) here:»support.microsoft.com/kb/310578 But, at least on my WinXP box, that is *not* running, nor it is designed to start on boot up. It is only a 3 KB file that has no icons or strings in it. The KB article describes Task Scheduler and QuickRes icons, but I did not notice those while looking through stobject.dll. |
