How to build a SystemTray app for Windows?

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You do this using the pywin32 (Python for Windows Extensions) module.

Example Code for Python 2

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To make it run at startup you could mess around with services but it’s actually much easier to install a link to the exe in the users “Startup Folder”.

Windows 7 and Vista

c:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Windows XP

c:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

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