How to add a program icon (via registry...) to the system tray after startup ?

How to add a program icon to the system tray after startup (via registry or whatever) so it will be available in case it doesnt add at startup?
Sometimes a specific program icon will not appear in the tray at startup (although all the settings would indicate that it should, currently I have about a dozen or so icons in the tray so maybe its too crowded?) and when added with the program.exe file the icon will appear but will not have any functionality as it would if loaded at startup.
Ideas?

 

How to push program icon to 'system tray' ???

Still having problem.
Couple programs that are supposed to load icons in the system tray but are not.
How to make them load?
Changing settings in 'msconfig' (program startup vs startup folder startup) does not help.
Ideas ?
Other place to look ?

 

What program icons appear in the systemtray depends entirely on the program in question, meaning if you haven't manually selected so that the program's icon wouldn't appear in the system tray, all programs would have their related icon show up in the system tray. some would have bunch of features/functions available from their systemtray icon some would not give you much of anything, that also depends on how the program has its own icon configured (per design).

You will have to give specific program names so people would have a better idea to toss suggestions/info at you.

Forexample: you stated, when you run a program manually, do you see its icon in the systemtray? If you do not then either some sort of a hack is in place to hide the icon or like you hinted, perhaps the tray area doesn't have enough real estate to display that many icons. If you are using XP, under Taskbar and Start Menu properties window, there is the option "Hide inactive icons", if that is selected, you will only see a few icons in the system tray and the rest would be on a need-to-see mode where available after expanding the list by clicking on the arrow to the left...

 

Sometimes the icons will appear at startup (when logon) and sometimes not.
The programs (Handything and FREEram, although it has happened with other programs too) have settings checked to show the icon and are started from the Startup folder or have settings checked to startup with Windows (have tried it both ways with the same results, sometimes icon appears at systray and sometimes not).
If use the 'Windows Task Manager' to stop and then I restart them manually, the program icons will then normally appear in the systray.
Just thought there may be a utility or Windows setting that may be able to control the systray display... the registry setting that I have found changes at startup.

 

Make sure you do not have more than 1 startup entry for any one of these applications! Having multiple startup points could create odd issues such as this.

If you can see the programs in TaskManager each time you start the system, that would mean the startup entries are doing their job, so it is either that the system tray is overcrowded and the default icon cache of Windows is not handling it properly or the application that fails to display the icon has issues.

I do not know anything about either one of the 2 applications you mentioned so I won't be able to comment specificly on these programs.
But, here is something for you to try, if it is always the same application icons that are missing, disable (you don't have to delete the entire startup entry) the all or most of the other startup entries, then reboot the system to see if the previously missing ones show up or not.

To manage your startup entries (to easily disable/re-enable), my favorite freeware is Mike Lin's StartupControlPanel (either the control panel applet or the standalone version is fine), another good program which shows a ton more other stuff is Autoruns.

If you decided to use either tool, please see this post which should give you detailed info about each one.

~TL :cool