Detect system tray Applications on WinXP?

From: Muzzy (leyandrew_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:42:34 -0500

Hi,
I can't find a way to get a list launched of programms(pprocesses?)
which put an icon in the system tray. My program connects to an ip
address thru a VPN and obviously it's able to do so only if VPN Client
is launched. So i need to find a way to detect if the VPN client is
launched or not.
Pinging the ip address is not a resolution, because it just doesn't
respond to ping command(firewall?), and also VPN client is 3rd party
app, so i can't hook into it.

What i've done is my program reads all windows' titles using
GetWindowText and find a window with that title. But on WinXP it doesn't
work for some wierd reason - it just doesn't see that window, thou VPN
Client DOES NOT launch as a service, but as a regular program.

So i thought that i could resolve the issue just obtaining info about
system tray icons and their processes and detect VPN Client that way...

Any suggestions are highly appreciated!

Thank you,
Andrey

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