How to create your own hidden icon?

Question

cmd/bat

I have a bat script that starts when Window 10 starts. After starting Window, the script console hangs in the taskbar. How to send script icon to hidden icons?

Answer 1

The area on the right side of the taskbar is the "tray". And this is not an area of ​​hidden tasks. Windows has a special API so that an application can place its own icon in the tray. The application itself must be able to do this (or it can be done with a third application, see benipaz 's answer ). cmd.exe can't do that.
There are a lot of hidden tasks in Windows and you can't see their windows and icons anywhere. To check, just open the task manager and go to the details tab - in this list are the processes that are currently running in your Windows. How many icons from this list do you see in the taskbar and in the tray?

I have a bat script that runs on Windows 10 startup

Why not terminate this start script? Then it will not hang in the taskbar.
Another option - you can run this script from the scheduler on the user login event. Tasks from the scheduler run in stealth mode by default.
There is also another option - run the batch file in hidden mode through an intermediate small script in JavaScript or VBScript. Examples are easy to google. At the same time, you can embed a JavaScript script in a batch file, so both scripts will physically be in the same file. The technique of introducing a JavaScript script into a batch file can also be googled, there is nothing complicated there.

Answer 2

No way. There is no such functionality in cmd.
Only a scheduler, with a checkbox for a hidden task.
I think you'll figure it out yourself

Answer 3

only by external applications. e.g. Minimize to Tray Tool