The system tray, also called the Notification Area, is the little area of icons next to your system clock. Certain programs, espeically those that are designed to run in the background all the time, look much better minimized to the system tray rather than taking up space in the windows taskbar. Here's a .bas module I created for Visual Basic which allows you to easily minimize your program to the system tray with only a few lines of code. You simply add the module to your project, then copy and paste the code below into your form.

Download SystemTray.bas (March 28, 2009)

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