WinPatrol taskbar icon.

[Dougie 007]

Gidday, i'm sure many have had an issue with this before, i have googled it and found that to be true. How can i make sure that the WinPatrol taskbar icon always appears whenever i start up Windows 7? About half the time it turns up in the taskbar but other times it's not there at all, or it turns up along time after windows starts, like half an hour later. I might add WinPatrol is always running from the start, it is just no icon in the taskbar shows up sometimes to confirm that.

[ky331]

Two places to consider:

In WinPatrol itself, under the Options tab, be sure the "Hide System Tray Icon" is *NOT* checked.

In Control Panel, open "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties", the Taskbar tab, look toward the middle -- Notification Area --- and click Customize.   Locate WinPatrol's icon, and from the drop-down menu, select Show Icon and Notifications, and at the bottom, click on OK.

I'm guessing it's more likely the second setting you'll have to adjust.

[Corrine]

I think this will solve the problem.  Via Bill Pytlovany on the WinPatrol Facebook page:

There is a new "wpsetup.exe" on WinPatrol.com/download.html website. This is still WinPatrol version 29.0.2013. Updating is not needed. The only change is in the install script. The same winpatrol.exe and winpatrolex.exe are installed but the new wpsetup.exe corrects an error creating the start button shortcuts for those two programs. If you didn't notice any problem you probably don't need to run the new install/setup program.

You shouldn't bother re-installing...
1) If you have Windows 8 this change won't affect you because you don't have a Start Button Menu.
2) If you never run WinPatrol Explorer from the Start menu. Most people launch WinPatrol Explorer by double clicking on the system tray icon.
3) If you've already created replacements by right-clicking on Start Menu Programs -> WinPatrol and created a link to the program.
4) The shortcut still exists from previous versions of WinPatrol.

Sorry that I missed this one and appreciate all of you who took the time to report this bug. While my main development desktop runs Windows 7 I use Windows 8 more often.

If you choose to download and run the new wpsetup.exe you shouldn't uninstall your previous version.

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