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On a subsequent login, our script should successfully locate the program in the history, and update its setting to always show. In order for this to work, the user must have previously run the application, and then properly logged out, so that explorer.exe gets a chance to write the updated notification area history to the Registry. Now when users login, the GPO should run our script that will look for tftpd32.exe in the notification area history, then set it to always display. If youвЂ™re here and reading this far, youвЂ™ll probably want to select setting 2вЂ¦ In my example I enter вЂtftp32.exe 2вЂ™ as my parameters.ДЄt this point, we can now save and close our GPOвЂ™s. In the login script properties window, add a new PowerShell script, in the script name, enter NotifyIcon.ps1, and then in the parameters, enter the program name (case sensitive!) followed by the setting to use: This will open an Explorer window вЂ“ Move the NotifyIcon.ps1 script we created earlier into this location, so that our GPO login script can see it, you can then close that Explorer window. Once youвЂ™re in the login script properties window, move to the PowerShell tab, and click the View Files button. Group Policy Management Editor - Logon Scripts

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In the editor, navigate to User Configuration > Windows Settings > Scripts > Logon

Select your chosen Group Policy Object, right click and select Edit. The next stage is to add the script into a GPO that runs for the users that you want to apply this setting to. Go over to his site, and copy/paste the script into a new file, and save it as вЂNotifyIcons.ps1вЂ™. Luckily for us, Micah Rowland has spent a while reverse engineering this key, and produced a very handy script that easily allows us to force icons to be visible. Windows will by default hide this from your users, and doesnвЂ™t provide an easy way to automate or script the visibility of these icons for system administrators, as the registry key that stores this information is a long binary key. For example, you might roll out an instant messaging or business application that you would like to always be visible via the notification area. Most of the time, this management of our notification area is fine, however occasionally it can work against you.

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