How to show an icon for a USB device in system tray?
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Hello, I posted this question to operation system forum but I got no answers. I felt maybe I have posted it in a wrong forum so I post the question here and I hope someone knows about it. I have an instrument that is connected to computer via USB(with FT232R USB chip and its supplied drivers). I want when I plug in the device an icon is displayed in system tray. I don't want any specific function like a menu or blinking or anything else. Just when I plug the device an icon to be displayed and when I unplug it the icon goes away. At most I want a tip when I move mouse over it. how can I do this? I feel that I have to manipulate .inf files but I don't know how. Any help is welcomed. thanks.
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Hello, I posted this question to operation system forum but I got no answers. I felt maybe I have posted it in a wrong forum so I post the question here and I hope someone knows about it. I have an instrument that is connected to computer via USB(with FT232R USB chip and its supplied drivers). I want when I plug in the device an icon is displayed in system tray. I don't want any specific function like a menu or blinking or anything else. Just when I plug the device an icon to be displayed and when I unplug it the icon goes away. At most I want a tip when I move mouse over it. how can I do this? I feel that I have to manipulate .inf files but I don't know how. Any help is welcomed. thanks.
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That would mean changing the driver I believe.
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Hello, I posted this question to operation system forum but I got no answers. I felt maybe I have posted it in a wrong forum so I post the question here and I hope someone knows about it. I have an instrument that is connected to computer via USB(with FT232R USB chip and its supplied drivers). I want when I plug in the device an icon is displayed in system tray. I don't want any specific function like a menu or blinking or anything else. Just when I plug the device an icon to be displayed and when I unplug it the icon goes away. At most I want a tip when I move mouse over it. how can I do this? I feel that I have to manipulate .inf files but I don't know how. Any help is welcomed. thanks.
Electronic75 wrote:
I don't want any specific function like a menu or blinking or anything else. Just when I plug the device an icon to be displayed and when I unplug it the icon goes away
Why do you want this? Because its funky? Because you think its cool? Its not. Its crap. If you HAVENT got a menu, or somehting usefull to do, dont clutter up the pannel with useless Icons whose sole purpose is to massage the ego of the creator. Anyway, you cant do it from a driver, or from an inf file. It can only be done from user mode, drivers cant touch the UI.
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