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Article #12031Detect system tray apps on WinXP?
From: Muzzy
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:43
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:43
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Hi, I can't find a way to get a list launched of programms(pprocesses?) which put an icon in the system tray. My program connects to an ip address thru a VPN and obviously it's able to do so only if VPN Client is launched. So i need to find a way to detect if the VPN client is launched or not. Pinging the ip address is not a resolution, because it just doesn't respond to ping command(firewall?), and also VPN client is 3rd party app, so i can't hook into it. What i've done is my program reads all windows' titles using GetWindowText and find a window with that title. But on WinXP it doesn't work for some wierd reason - it just doesn't see that window, thou VPN Client DOES NOT launch as a service, but as a regular program. So i thought that i could resolve the issue just obtaining info about system tray icons and their processes and detect VPN Client that way... Any suggestions are highly appreciated! Thank you, Andrey
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