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Right click an empty spot on your Taskbar > Properties > under
"Notifications" click > Customize. Select the program you , click in
Behaviour and choose to Show Always.
Andre
"Sammo" <noone@no-where.com> wrote in message
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>> "Sammo" <noone@no-where.com> wrote in message
>>
>>>I prefer to choose which exactly system tray icons get hidden.
>>> Unfortunately XP creates new icons to be "Hidden When
>>> Inactive".
>>>
>>> Is it possible to make get XP to create new system tray icons
>>> so that they have the attribute "Active"?
>
> On 09 Oct 2004, DM wrote:
>>
>> Right click on the task bar and select properties, on the bottom
>> right of the Taskbar applet click customise. Click each of the
>> items, current and past, in turn and select from always hide,
>> always show and hide when inactive from the drop down list on
>> the right.
>
>
> That is exactly the process I want to *automate*.
>
> I don't want to change each system tray icon as it appears for the
> first time and change it to "Always Show Icon".
>
> is there a way to change the default setting for the system tray
> icons so that they always show even though some of the other icons
> may be hidden?