Inserting BAT to Tray notification area of Windows 10 [or some other file]

[Cosinus Techno Sheets]

Is there a way to put BAT file or LNK leading to it in the Tray notification area above the clock of Windows 10- so that it would be executable like some pinned permanently EXE to [my vertical] Taskbar?

Or any other script file format for that matter?

[And not, I cannot utilize for this specific need ordinary pinning to Taskbar, using sub-menu in or another bar or the Tray seen after clicking of Show hidden icons button]

[AbydosOne]

11 minutes ago, Cosinus Techno Sheets said:

Is there a way to put BAT file or LNK leading to it in the Tray notification area above the clock of Windows 10- so that it would be executable like some pinned EXE to Taskbar?

Or any other script file format for that matter?

[And now, I cannot utilize for this specific need ordinary pinning to Taskbar, using sub-menu in or another bar or the Tray seen after clicking of Show hidden icons button]

Create a new link to cmd /c "path\to\file.bat". Drag link onto task bar.

 

https://superuser.com/questions/100249/how-to-pin-either-a-shortcut-or-a-batch-file-to-the-new-windows-7-8-and-10-task

[Cosinus Techno Sheets]

32 minutes ago, Cosinus Techno Sheets said:

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I cannot utilize for this specific need ordinary pinning to Taskbar

[...]

I need to add a sturdy / always visible button to my vertical Taskbar- which means it needs to be accessible above the clock, so that it will not disappear when I will have an excess of opened windows

[Cosinus Techno Sheets]

Well, anyone?

Any ideas?

[rinuwaii]

I was looking for this exact thing, and unfortunately there's no native way to do this. However, after looking around, I figured out that you can make a basic AutoHotKey script to do this.

 

You need to install AutoHotKey v2, and then I uploaded the script I made to GitHub so just download/copy that. Change the editable stuff to point to your file, icon, etc and then run it. The one small downside to this is that the script doesn't auto-run by default, so you'll need to manually do that or make the script a startup program/scheduled task.

 

I tried to document every step so both I knew what was going on and so others can hopefully learn from it.

full disclaimer: i had zero prior knowledge of AHK before doing this, so this might be really bad. i dunno honestly, it works pretty well for me

 

Hope this works for u!

 

[Cosinus Techno Sheets]

This looks interesting, also for other tasks; thank you. But if the purpose of such AHK in Tray would be to run [upon clicking its icon] of some other script that would kill all kinds of scripts [including AHK ones]- then this one would also be killed thus disappear from Tray, right? And as it would only work once before being re-opened it would not be able to break fast loops of some ill scripts being fired up rapidly, by me quickly clicking it multiple times. And believe me when I say that not once had my limited coding skills resulted in my Taskbar being flooded with icons representing e.g. CMD windows

 

So the only way I could utilize this would be if I would be using only this one AHK V2 script, while indulging [like I do now] in using AHK V1 for everything else [or the other way around i.e. assuming it can be done I would need to rewrite this to AHK V1 code and from now one use AHK V2]