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After I've shut down a VS 2008 web project, well, a lot of times, I see many instances of the WebDev icon in the "tooltray" / system notification area:

tooltray with webdev tracks

These are no longer active instances; they were shut down by VS.

When I mouse over any of these, Windows Vista "conveniently" collapses the tray for me. This makes life miserable if the app I want is in between any of them (e.g., Outlook in the image above), and even worse if I actually want to right click on the "active" WebDev.

Any idea how I can get VS, WebDev, or Windows to fix this behavior?

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There is a utility on CodeProject that does this: TrayIconBuster http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/TrayIconBuster.aspx

It runs every x minutes and removes all phantom icons...

Not the perfect solution, because I think this should be built in to Windows...

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  • +1 since it actually is a solution. Would like something better, but I'm starting to wonder if "something better" even exists. – Craig Stuntz Jan 05 '10 at 14:01
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    I am using Windows 7 and don't have this problem (maybe that's another solution), but most of the times VS closes normally, and then the icons go away automatically – Peter Gfader Jan 05 '10 at 21:28