re: Question about 'Refresh the Desktop without Restarting Windows'
Wednesday, September 18, 2002 at 1:00 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Gryffyn
(1 messages posted)
When Explorer crashes or you END TASK it, it should automatically restart. But as
this discussion has covered, not all your systray icons are going to come back.
On my machine, the following come back nicely:
Yahoo Messenger
AOL Instant Messenger
ICQ
Microsoft Messenger
Analog X's MaxMem
The following are chronically disappearing on me and needed to be "found" or END
TASKed so I can get their icons to show back up in the systray.
ePrompter
Bulletproof FTP
I couldn't find a program to just show all windows and make them visible/active,
so I pulled up WinBatch (since I knew it had a script command to do it) and wrote
a little script.
This script is VERY unpolished, but if you're like me and end up with things still
running, but unaccessible that you need to pull back to the front and do something
with before you exit/close/END TASK them, then this script should help.
There are two versions, one that should work on anyone's machine (dunno about different
versions of Windows, works fine on Win98), and a 'smaller' script that requires WinBatch
script interpreting DLL's on your machine. I don't know why I bother with both versions,
the one is like 100k and the other 300k. I'm sure this program could be done in
like 20k by a real programmer. But I'm not a real programmer, so oh well.
Again, it's super unpolished. It gives a list of ALL windows, regardless of whether
you're ever supposed to see them or not. Many will not come to the front even witht
his program. The output is totally non-sorted or anything. In the future I may
polish it. But not right now. I just knew I could do this in 2 seconds and it might
be useful for someone out there.
Hope this helps someone. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tgryffyn23/temp/SHOWWIN.ZIP
Gryffyn
On Sunday, November 4, 2001 at 5:06 am, Vernon wrote:
>I have a question about Refresh
>the Desktop without Restarting Windows:
>
>It works but it drops the running app from the tray...
>How can I restore the icon to the tray
>
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