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Conference noted::windows95

Title:	Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago")
Notice:	Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything
Moderator:	EEMELI::BACKSTROM

Created:	Sun Nov 13 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2958
Total number of notes:	19968

2803.0. "SYSTRAY in the task list, what is it?" by NWD002::FEIGLE () Tue Feb 18 1997 00:53

    Can you tell me what "systray" is?
    
    I was having problems loading AOL 3.0 for Win95, and after much pain,
    got it installed.  Along thew way, to assure nothing like a virus
    checker or such was running we did ALD-CTL-DEL to bring up a task list. 
    The normal stuff was there: Plugins, Explorer, etc... but also this
    SYSTRAY.  Since I didn't know what it was... end-task.  For some reason
    it took two tries to kill it dead.  It comes back on a reboot; the
    system has checked clean for viruses... any idea what this task is?
    
    jff

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2803.1		TARKIN::LIN	Bill Lin	`Tue Feb 18 1997 02:23`	12
	re: NWD002::FEIGLE jff, I have never seen the term defined and the term does not show up under Windows 95 help, however, based on its usage in this conference, I infer that the systray is the "indent" in the TASKBAR on the end opposite the Start menu. Cheers, /Bill
2803.2	Don't kill SYSTRAY.	snooty.uvo.dec.com::TRAVELL	John T, UK VMS System Support	`Tue Feb 18 1997 08:15`	9
	re .1, got it in one... There are a number of applications that put an icon in the SYSTRAY, this is partly because these are things that you would not normally need to put an item on the taskbar for them. Quickres is one such example. Dial-up-networking with the ISDN patch is another. The clock is a third. There are many others. Summary. Don't kill SYSTRAY. It has enough value to justify it's presence. John Travell.
2803.3	More technically (I think)	TALLIS::NELSON	It's not the years it's the mileage!	`Tue Feb 18 1997 09:38`	13
	Having implemented the feature in the FX!32 Manager which puts the icon in the system tray and responds to various events (mousemove, double click), I would guess that SYSTRAY is the process which sends the system events to my application. I hadn't thought about it before, I'd assumed that the kernel was what I was talking to, but having noticed this SYSTRAY process on my own Win95 machine at home I put 2 and 2 together to come up with this guess. Brian
2803.4	.3 is prob'ly right.	BSS::PROCTOR_R	Sniffing the floral arrangement	`Tue Feb 18 1997 10:57`	8
	I will have to agree with .3, I just [ctrl] [alt] [del'd] myself into a task list, and I sure don't see SYSTRAY showin up.. and I have enough silly icons in systray that the damned thing stretches 40% of the way across the task bar! And I wonder why Wintune sez I have the performance of an 8088... *8)
2803.5		SMURF::PBECK	Paul Beck	`Tue Feb 18 1997 11:51`	3
	> And I wonder why Wintune sez I have the performance of an 8088... Yeah, but how's your computer performing?
2803.6		BSS::PROCTOR_R	Sniffing the floral arrangement	`Tue Feb 18 1997 16:15`	7
	> re .-1 like lots of things in my life.... sluggishly. if at all. sigh. *8)