I should have known that there would already be a solution on the UT. Go to the files area (the yellow file cabinet icon) here and look in the Classes/VCX section for a file titled "Putting items on the system tray" or something like that.

>>2. I was looking at using the Shell_NotifyIcon API call to attempt to run a vfp exe in the task tray however it requires a user defined data type of NOTIFYICONDATA. How do I create this in VFP.
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>Maybe someone else can help you with this one. I've never used Shell_NotifyIcon.