Newbie Question - Running App. in System Tray

[MrTBC]

Is there any way to run a standard application in the system tray so that it runs in the background, rather than as visible to the user?
The application in question imports scanned files from a network scanner to a folder for the user. It can be set to automatically import and thus requires no intervention from them (but does need to run on their PC).

You know what they're like...if they can see it, they'll make it go wrong somehow!

Thanks very much for your help guys.

 

[CasperTFG]

Depends on the language that the program is written in...

It has to be done in the programs code... VB for example has this...

Private Declare Function Shell_NotifyIcon Lib "shell32" Alias "Shell_NotifyIconA" (ByVal dwMessage As Long, pnid As NOTIFYICONDATA) As Boolean

Casper

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[MrTBC]

Thanks for that. Unfortunately it is an 'off the shelf' app. so I guess I would need some kind of third-party utility.