zelphirkalt 8 hours ago

Why has the tray icons still existing despite process being killed bug gone unfixed for decades?

Microsoft does not care or extremely sucks at quality assurance.

  • nubinetwork 5 hours ago

    I'm guessing its some ipc that only adds or removes entries, but when you mouseover it sends a signal to the killed process, realizes its gone, and only then deletes the icon from the systray...

    • inigyou 5 hours ago

      That is correct

    • surajrmal 1 hour ago

      Does that make it okay? There are many ways to have it learn the process dies without needing to signal the process.

  • 0x073 4 hours ago

    This is a bug of the application and not of windows.

    It's maybe a bad API design, but in the end every app developer can fix it for their apps.

cosmotic 8 hours ago

Did they not look up the PC manufacturer or model number to verify this hypothesis?