How do I enable the old networking tray icons on Windows 10 1903?

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Denis

Is there such a thing as a generic Display icon in System tray [Notification area] utility?

The facility for putting an icon into the System tray exists and is used by Windows & by applications to put their chosen icons there.
- I imagine that is a fairly standard form of code in its own module within relevant Windows components & applications.
- I imagine that this module is called & the path to the chosen icon is passed in the call.

Has anybody seen a stand-alone, executable form of this facility/module?
- If it exists then it might also be called by a user-written script.
- If it exists then it would seem to be the solution for this OP's query and for the many similar queries that have appeared over time.

I have not found a solution by searching the internet. I keep getting swamped by explanations of using Taskbar settings.

[Added for clarity after later discussions with dalchina - see next few posts]

What I want might not exist.

What I want is an 'executable' file that can be called from PS & possibly VBA to place/remove a chosen icon in the System tray.
- The path of the chosen icon would necessarily be passed within the call.
- A call would be made to show the chosen icon in the System tray
- A later call would be made to remove the chosen icon from the System tray
I have no knowledge of or opinion about what the 'executable' would be written in but I understand that C# and VB.Net could be used & I appreciate that C++ might also be suitable.

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The closest thing I've found was suggested by @dalchina in a 2017 thread
Trayconizer 1.1.1 - WhitSoft Development
but making use of it for just putting up a system tray icon would seem pretty convoluted.
- This utility seems to want to work just for an .exe rather than for, say, a .ps1

Denis

Hi, this is claimed to work with Win 10 - scripts- no idea..
4t Tray Minimizer Free/Pro - Minimize Outlook, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and any other applications to the system tray!

This works too:
eXtra Buttons: utility buttons in the title of the window
(If I recall it adds rt click options to taskbar as well as buttons in the taskbar)

Whether they meet your requirements...

Then there's Autohotkey:
Minimize Window to Tray Menu

dalchina,

Yes, those utilities are all making use of the imaginary module I described.

Denis

Not sure what you want- how to do that in C++ ?

dalchina said:

Not sure what you want- how to do that in C++ ?

dalchina,

What I want might not exist.

What I want is an 'executable' file that can be called from PS & possibly VBA to place/remove a chosen icon in the System tray.
- The path of the chosen icon would necessarily be passed within the call.
- I have no knowledge of what the 'executable' would be written in but I understand that C# and VB.Net could be used & I appreciate that C++ might also be suitable.
- A call would be made to place the chosen icon in the System tray
- A later call would be made to remove the chosen icon from the System tray

Denis