Forcing Systray to Refresh

[kpassaur]

This may sound silly, but after opening and closing a bunch of compiled Marcros, on occasion they stack up in the SysTray. No big deal really as when you place your mouse over them the screen redraws and they are gone.

However, I was wondering if there is a way to force the redraw so they would not do this.

[adroege]

I looked for some way in WMI or VBScript to do this but
couldn't find it (Yet, anyway)

However, this seems to work for me in XP and Windows Server 2008
It just moves the mouse over this area quickly, which forces Windows to redraw and remove any old icons left over from "dead" programs.

Code: Select all

GetCursorPos>OLD_X,OLD_Y
GetWindowPos>Notification Area*,X,Y
GetScreenRes>MAX_X,MAX_Y
Let>MAX_X=MAX_X-10
Let>Y=Y+8
MouseMove>X,Y
Label>Loop
  If>X>MAX_X,Loop_x
    Add>X,8
    MouseMove>X,Y
  Endif
  Goto>Loop
Label>Loop_x
MouseMove>OLD_X,OLD_Y

[kpassaur]

Thanks I would never have thought of that.

[wil]

Hi

In windows7 i use this code to kill spotify (it won't close normally by itself and GetWindowPos>Notification Area* doesn't work under windows7) AND to get rid of the stack up icons in the tray.
For some reason code was not displayed correctly here so i uploaded the code to another location.

Disadvantage: it only works when systray is at the bottom of the screen. So if there is any better solution, please let me know.

best regards,
wil