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"nicolasr" <nicolasrREMOVETHISSPAMBLOCKER@gmx.net> wrote in message 
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a third party application (app1) that I need to automate.
> My controller app (app2) starts app1 and watches
> at certain intervals whether app1 is still alive.
> Every now and then app1 crashes, needs to
> automatically be terminated and restarted.
> (Unfortunately I don't have source code for app1
> to correct the actual problem....)
>
> This works as expected except for the fact that
> app1 has a tray icon and after app1 has been
> terminated and restarted several times the tray
> area expands over the entire task bar and
> displays dead tray icons of app1 that would
> disappear if I moved over them with the mouse.
> Unfortunately nobody sits in front of the PC and all
> this needs to be automated. So app2 should be able
> to remove those dead icons.
>
> I found some code like:
>
> HWND hTaskbar = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", NULL);
> HWND hSysTray = FindWindowEx(hTaskbar, 0, "TrayNotifyWnd", NULL);
> RECT rect;
> GetWindowRect(hSysTray, &rect);
>
> that then uses mouse_event() to simulate a user moving the mouse
> over the system tray. While this works on my XP machine with one dead icon
> it does not work reliably on the business W2K machine with other things 
> running
> concurrently.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?
>
> How about sending mouse messages directly to the sys tray window?
> Or any other way to force explorer to update the system tray?

I've posted a demo utility in the attachments group.  Try it out and see if 
it does what you want.

- Dennis