System Tray Icon not appearing on startup

Question

I use the following code in the FormCreate event handler to create a system tray icon. When I run my program the system tray icon appears fine.

I set my application be

Answer 1

You're attempting to create the icon before Explorer has fully started. You should handle errors gracefully (scroll down to "Handling Shell_NotifyIcon failure").

You should also handle the TaskbarCreated notification -- it enables you to recreate your icons after Explorer crashes and restarts.