I have never come across a universal application that enables the described behaviour - Thats not to say that it doesn’t exist however.

Some applications are single click out of the tray, and other applications are double. It varies from program to program. Some programs don’t even minimize to the system tray; rather they minimize to the taskbar only. Select programs that dont minimize to the tray be default, such as Mozilla’s Thunderbird, have add-on’s available which introduce the system tray minimization functionality.

Ciao,
Colin.

Great question - you have opened up a whole new can of worms here.

For everyone else reading, Remote Desktop is a feature in Windows that allows you to login to a computer from across a network, such as the internet. This computer would of course, need to be pre-configured for security reasons in order to make this possible. A common example of this is to login to your work computer from your home computer.

Back on topic - Remote Desktop should remain active by default. However, if either computer goes into standby, hibernation, or sleep mode, you will lose the connection. If the connection is disconnected, the computer on the other end should remain “logged in” and active by default - therefore the macro ’should’ continue to run. But again if it goes to sleep, you are out of luck. So the morale of the story is to disable the sleep mode on both machines in question. Then you can “sleep” soundly while your macros run, without fear that your computer(s) will sleep too!

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Colin.

What can I say - Thanks man!

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Colin.

Yes, very good point - Having pets around the home can greatly increase the frequency in which the Tower will become clogged with hair. We love our pets, but they don’t get along well with computers (If I had a nickel for every time a cat walks across a keyboard, I’d be wealthier than Mr. Gates)

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Colin

Thank you for the information. Here is my situation: for work each mornng I wake up early (04:00) and remote into my work desktop from my laptop at home to kick off an Access macro. The queries can take up to an hour and a half to run. I would like to leave it run and go back to sleep but don’t because I fear I will lose all connections and it won’t complete. What exactly is happening in this scenario? Will the macro complete even though the desktop standsby/hibernates or sleeps? Will I lose my remote connection should my laptop standby/hibernate/sleep. Will losing the remote connection make a difference to what is happening on the desktop at work? Thanks so much.

Unfortunately no. Sleep was a feature introduced with Windows Vista. Windows XP can standby or hibernate, but there is no sleep feature. All this means is that if the laptop is set to standby, and is left for weeks in this state, the battery life may finally expire and the computer will shut down. Any unsaved work will be lost. This is, of course a very rare situation however. So its not a huge loss not having the sleep feature in XP. Hope this answers the question.

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Colin.

You are very welcome sir. Come back anytime!

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Colin.