{"id":12003,"date":"2010-12-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/12\/15\/there-is-no-interface-for-preventing-your-notification-icon-from-being-hidden\/"},"modified":"2010-12-15T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T07:00:00","slug":"there-is-no-interface-for-preventing-your-notification-icon-from-being-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20101215-00\/?p=12003","title":{"rendered":"There is no interface for preventing your notification icon from being hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s another installment of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/11\/01\/922449.aspx\"> I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature<\/a>. A customer had this question for the Windows&nbsp;7 team:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> Our program creates a notification icon, and we found that on Windows&nbsp;7 it is hidden. It appears properly on all previous versions of Windows. What is the API to make our icon visible? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> First of all, I&#8217;d like to congratulate you on writing <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/07\/21\/10040699.aspx\"> the most awesome program in the history of the universe<\/a>.\n Unfortunately, Windows&nbsp;7 was not prepared for your awesomeness, because there is no way to prevent your notification icon from being hidden. That&#8217;s because if there were, then every other program (the ones that aren&#8217;t as awesome as you) would use it, thereby causing your awesome icon to be lost among all the non-awesome ones.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m sorry. You will just have to find some other medium for self-actualization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s another installment of I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature. A customer had this question for the Windows&nbsp;7 team: Our program creates a notification icon, and we found that on Windows&nbsp;7 it is hidden. It appears properly on all previous versions of Windows. What is the API to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-12003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s another installment of I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature. A customer had this question for the Windows&nbsp;7 team: Our program creates a notification icon, and we found that on Windows&nbsp;7 it is hidden. It appears properly on all previous versions of Windows. What is the API to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}