AutoIt Script, Home Computing, My Codes - by Yen on Monday, November 24, 2008 15:22 - 15 Comments
Tray Icon for Vista Windows Mail
As promised, I hereby present to you a utility program to minimize Vista’s Windows Mail to the tray icon. For those who are not familiar with Windows Vista, Vista actually comes with a new mail manager application – Windows Mail. This mail manager does come with a lot of improvements over Outlook. However, one important feature is missing – minimize to tray.
I did a Google search for help and came up with one WinMailTray by Kristan Kenney. It did a very good job until I realised that it is actually more of a shortcut than a minimized tray icon. Even though the icon is in the tray, Windows Mail will not check for any new mails at every set interval. When Windows Mail is minimized, it is actually not running. And thus the reason why new mails will not automatically be retrieved even though WinMailTray is running.
So the solution, make one myself. Using AutoIt v3.2.12.1 on my Vista x64 rig. And the result is this:
Vista Mail Tray (64-bit) v0.0.0.7
(IMPORTANT! Read the following notes below.)
Vista Mail Tray (32-bit) v0.0.0.7
(IMPORTANT! Read the following notes below.)
How to use Vista Mail Tray:
- Download the correct version (32 or 64 bit) for your system
- The file doe NOT contain any virus/malware/whatever. But anyway, you can always scan the file at VirusTotal. Judge for yourself if those are real virus or just false alarms.
- Extract the file to any folder on your Vista computer. (C:\Program Files\Vista Mail Tray\Vista Mail Tray.exe would be a good choice.)
- If you want this utility to run every time Windows starts, create a Vista Mail Tray.exe shortcut in your Startup folder.
- To use, left click on the Windows Mail icon in the system tray to start/show or minimize Windows Mail. Right click to view menu.
- Have fun!
Notes:
- This program is provided for free, but all rights are still reserved by me. In other words, I still own rights to this program.
- You DO NOT have the right to redistribute this program. Your friends need it? Link them here to this page (http://www.chewybyte.net/home-computing/tray-icon-vista-windows-mail.html)
- Use at your own risks. I will and shall not be held liable to any loss or damages resulting from the use of this program.
- These zipped files are protected with the phase www.chewybyte.net
- Written on Monday, November 24, 2008 15:22 - 15 Comments -
15 Comments
senh
robert
great! just what i was looking for… eset nod detects is a threat though…
AutoIt uses an efficient EXE compression/packaging which also happens to be widely used by quite a number of viruses. And thus the false alarms on AutoIt-created EXEs.
Fenter Khumalo
Do not understand this.
Gerry
Fantastic Item, the best I have seen by far, thank you
Thank you.
Tomas
All creds for you. Have looked for this program for about 1month now and finaly i got it again. Had it one time before and loved it.
I read your posts for quite a long time and should tell that your posts are always valuable to readers.
Thanks Tomas and HHR. Just some simple tool I made for myself and I’m glad that other people can benefit from it.
This blog isn’t updated that frequently because I will always want to go for quality rather than quantity. Wouldn’t want to post just for the sake of posting. : )
When I try and paste it in to C/Program Files/Mail Notifyer , it asks for a password.
What should I enter?
Thanks
Kenneth
Running Vista
Hi Kenneth,
As stated in this blog, “These zipped files are protected with the phase www.chewybyte.net“.
Hope you will enjoy using it and have a nice day.
Oh sorry – clumsy me!
Thanks
Kenneth
I Am Finally Vista 64 ::: ChewyByte.net :::
[...] Stay tuned as coming soon… my very own Windows Mail tray icon minimizer! [...]
sarva
I use pop3 mail configured to my vista windows mail. But, the tray icon doesn’t alert me with new mails. Am I missing anything in the setup? I am able to download mails from Vista Windows Mail.
Hi sarva,
This program does not alert you of new mails. All it did was to hide the Vista Mail windows. So Vista Mail is still running invisibly and thus still able to retrieve and give notifications on new messages if it was set to do so.
For my own case, whenever there are new mails, a new white envelope icon will appear in the tray (in addition to the Vista Mail Tray icon). At the same time, a sound will be emitted (as set in Vista Mail: Tools > Options > General > Play sound when new messages arrive). All these were set and done by Vista Mail and not Vista Mail Tray.
Hopefully I had answered your question. Have a nice day. : )
Thanks. I need it. I have problem with the WinMailTray by Kristan.