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Old February 2nd 17, 09:29 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Boris[_4_]
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Default 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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Old February 2nd 17, 09:53 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mike Easter
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Default Notification Area/System Tray

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?

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Old February 2nd 17, 10:00 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mike Easter
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Default Notification Area/System Tray

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.

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Old February 2nd 17, 10:43 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Notification Area/System Tray

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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Old February 3rd 17, 08:26 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Notification Area/System Tray

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.
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Old February 3rd 17, 11:01 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Boris[_4_]
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Default Notification Area/System Tray

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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Old February 4th 17, 05:04 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Notification Area/System Tray

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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Old February 4th 17, 07:27 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Boris[_4_]
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Default Notification Area/System Tray

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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