John M McD's Blog

I've noticed a problem with my windows scrolling down all by themselves. I'm just sitting there, not touching the keyboard or the mouse, and the window scrolls down. Anybody else see this? I'm using Windows XP service pack 2, with all the latest service fixes. I first noticed the problem a few months ago.

My company recently made me install Connected DataProtector on my (well, the company's) laptop. It puts an icon on the system tray. There's a context menu for the icon, from which "Close System Tray Icon" can be selected. True to its name, it closes the icon. So far, so good. But in a few minutes, the icon returns.

How do I keep it from reappearing? Or am I destined to have this icon constantly reappearing, mocking my efforts to close it?

Update: 19 April 06: The "Close System Tray" icon doesn't just remove the system tray icon: it kills the application also. There must be some background process that restarts the application when it goes down, so that makes the system tray icon reappear. Hint to Connected: you might want to change the menu selection to "Exit", because that's what it does.