Here's a kludge deluxe solution. It scrolls the mouse over the task notification area - lol!

FOR I = 1 to 200 STEP 5
  MOUSE AT SYSMETRIC(2)-90, SYSMETRIC(1)-I PIXELS
NEXT

Hey, I said it was a kludge ;)




>Hi Jos,
>
>You may try to send a message to the system tray window making it to redraw itself or some of its children.

>DECLARE INTEGER SendMessage IN user32;
>	INTEGER hWnd,;
>	INTEGER Msg,;
>	INTEGER wParam,;
>	INTEGER lParam
>

>At this point I'm not sure what message (or messages) to send: WM_PAINT, WM_SHOWWINDOW or some others.
>
>The question is how to find hWnd for the system tray window. This is easy. The window has a very distinctive class name -- Shell_TrayWnd:

>hTrayWindow = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", Null)
>

>On this page http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=336 take a look at a picture in comments, a fragment of Visual Studion Spy++ screen. It gives you an idea about the windows hierarchy inside the Tray Window.