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Notification Area/System Tray
I'd like to have my Brother HL-2270DW Printer (connected via wifi home
network) to appear in the System Tray. It does on my Win10 machines. I first thought that only certain items Windows items (Windows Live Mail, Network, Windows Updates, etc.) were 'eligible' to be added to the Notification Area in Win7, but I do see in my current Notification Area non-Windows items such as the Canon IJ Network Scan Utility and RealtekHD Audio Manager, and HoverSnap.exe. My printers will briefly show up in the Notification Area when printing but then disappear. I don't see anyway to add the Brother printer, or any other printer, to the Notification area. Am I wrong? Is there a way to do this? Thanks. |
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Boris wrote:
I'd like to have my Brother HL-2270DW Printer (connected via wifi home network) to appear in the System Tray. Did you install the Remote Printer Console from the CD which came with the printer? -- Mike Easter |
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Mike Easter wrote:
Boris wrote: I'd like to have my Brother HL-2270DW Printer (connected via wifi home network) to appear in the System Tray. Did you install the Remote Printer Console from the CD which came with the printer? nevermindthat. How about checking 'Status Monitor' in the brother utilities. -- Mike Easter |
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Boris on 2017/02/02 wrote:
I'd like to have my Brother HL-2270DW Printer (connected via wifi home network) to appear in the System Tray. It does on my Win10 machines. I first thought that only certain items Windows items (Windows Live Mail, Network, Windows Updates, etc.) were 'eligible' to be added to the Notification Area in Win7, but I do see in my current Notification Area non-Windows items such as the Canon IJ Network Scan Utility and RealtekHD Audio Manager, and HoverSnap.exe. My printers will briefly show up in the Notification Area when printing but then disappear. I don't see anyway to add the Brother printer, or any other printer, to the Notification area. Am I wrong? Is there a way to do this? Tray icons are a function of the program that creates the object and then manages it (changing the icon to represent status change, opening a config window when [double]clicked on) displaying popups, etc. If your program does not have a tray icon in Windows 7 then it is because the Windows 7 version of its software does not create and support a tray icon. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...(v=vs.85).aspx Unlike task bar buttons for windows of loaded programs, tray icons are code within the program to have it decide if and when to display a tray icon, when to update it, what features/actions it will have, and what to do on a mouse [double]click. There are utilities that will act as tray icon managers. They appear in the tray area (aka system notification area) while allow windows for programs to minimize to the tray area as an icon but ONLY shown within that tray icon manager. The utility may not provide all the features available with a real tray icon for the pseudo-tray icons that it manage. You also have to actually load a program that has a window so that window can be minimized into a tray icon within the manager's tray icon. |
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In message 8, Boris
writes: I'd like to have my Brother HL-2270DW Printer (connected via wifi home network) to appear in the System Tray. It does on my Win10 machines. [] My printers will briefly show up in the Notification Area when printing but then disappear. [] No idea if it will help with this, but it might be worth temporarily changing (I think it's under properties if you right-click an empty part of the taskbar, though almost certainly accessible via other routes such as Control Panel) to "always show all tray icons", or some similar words. (I'm not on my 7 machine ATM.) That might at least let you see what's happening when they appear/disappear. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Grief generates a huge energy in you and it's better for everybody if you harness it to do something. - Judi Dench, RT 2015/2/28-3/6 |
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VanguardLH wrote in :
Boris on 2017/02/02 wrote: I'd like to have my Brother HL-2270DW Printer (connected via wifi home network) to appear in the System Tray. It does on my Win10 machines. I first thought that only certain items Windows items (Windows Live Mail, Network, Windows Updates, etc.) were 'eligible' to be added to the Notification Area in Win7, but I do see in my current Notification Area non-Windows items such as the Canon IJ Network Scan Utility and RealtekHD Audio Manager, and HoverSnap.exe. My printers will briefly show up in the Notification Area when printing but then disappear. I don't see anyway to add the Brother printer, or any other printer, to the Notification area. Am I wrong? Is there a way to do this? Tray icons are a function of the program that creates the object and then manages it (changing the icon to represent status change, opening a config window when [double]clicked on) displaying popups, etc. If your program does not have a tray icon in Windows 7 then it is because the Windows 7 version of its software does not create and support a tray icon. It appears that the Brother printer does not have a Notification Area for the Win7 version, so I'm done trying. It does on my XP machine. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...sktop/ee330740 (v=vs. 85).aspx Unlike task bar buttons for windows of loaded programs, tray icons are code within the program to have it decide if and when to display a tray icon, when to update it, what features/actions it will have, and what to do on a mouse [double]click. Yes. There are utilities that will act as tray icon managers. They appear in the tray area (aka system notification area) while allow windows for programs to minimize to the tray area as an icon but ONLY shown within that tray icon manager. The utility may not provide all the features available with a real tray icon for the pseudo-tray icons that it manage. You also have to actually load a program that has a window so that window can be minimized into a tray icon within the manager's tray icon. While working with the Notification Area settings, I see that I have programs there that have long since been deleted/uninstalled. Do you know if removing all instances in the registry will fix this? Also, these 'leftover' instances in the Notification Area settings window, have icons that don't have what they used to represent. Thanks. |
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Boris on 2017/02/03 wrote:
While working with the Notification Area settings, I see that I have programs there that have long since been deleted/uninstalled. Do you know if removing all instances in the registry will fix this? Also, these 'leftover' instances in the Notification Area settings window, have icons that don't have what they used to represent. https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ons-reset.html That provides a batch file with the registry entries to clear. |
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VanguardLH wrote in :
Boris on 2017/02/03 wrote: While working with the Notification Area settings, I see that I have programs there that have long since been deleted/uninstalled. Do you know if removing all instances in the registry will fix this? Also, these 'leftover' instances in the Notification Area settings window, have icons that don't have what they used to represent. https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...on-area-icons- res et.html That provides a batch file with the registry entries to clear. Wow. That worked beautifully. Many thanks! What I did, later, just out of curiosity, was to try what the batch file did automatically, by myself, manually. I did an End Process on explorer.exe through the Task Manager, then did File...New Task (Run...) to get Regedit up, then deleted both notification keys, and restarted explorer.exe, and finally restarted. |
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