tweak question

hi,i have a prodigy sound card. i created a shortcut on the desktop. when i click on it an icon appears in the system tray by the clock then i have to click on that icon to open it and the only way to close it is to end process in the task manager.my question is. is it possible to make this just open when i click on the shortcut and when i exit have it close without going into the task manager. thank you

 

hi tony,the program is not listed in the control panel or in program files. the only place i can find it is in c:/ windows/system. when i click on that the same thing happens. i made the shortcut from there.

 

Look for sndvol32.exe in your windows\system32 folder and try running it to see if it's what you're after. If so, create a shortcut for it and delete the other one you made.

 

To zero in on a more explicit answer, it would help to know exactly what file (ie; *.???) this shortcut is for?

Right click the shortcut you made and select "Properties "
Click the shortcut tab
What is listed as or typed on the the target type-in line
(we really only need the final file in this line. The one with the (file name).(3 letter extension) example:
sndvol32.exe

 

thanks for the reply's. sorry i took so long to reply back. zander i tried your suggestion. that's for the windows volume control. what i am trying to do is with the sound card control panel. Goddez this is what is listed in the target location of the shortcut.
C:\WINDOWS\system\Pd71Pan.exe

 

This is your "Control Panel" for your sound card. By default it is coded to load and sit in the systray as an icon for your "configuration convenience" or for easy access to other soundcard software components such as recorders or players or "sound scheme special effects" and the like. I don't have your sound card and have no idea what options are controlled or set from this console.

Many applications are designed to do this. Usually there's an option somewhere within the applet that allows you to enable or disable the automatic system starup load or the default of showing or minimizing to the systray or whether it should collapse to the systray on an exit.

The fact that you have had to manually make a shortcut to this indicates that at some point you have managed to stop the options to "load on startup" or "show in systray ". Check to see if there is also an additional option you can set that tells this console to "exit on exit" rather than collapse (minimize or exit) to systray ".

If it doesn't, it may be beyond the scope of what this applet has been written to do. Consequently it is defaulted to sit in the systray. In other words, you may be able to stop this from automatically loading but once it has been loaded it is coded to collapse to the systray. In that case there may be an additional option, if you just right click on the icon while it is sitting in the systray. This may have "exit" listed which should close or unload this bugger from the systray.

Additonally, you may be able to get a different action or "confirm action dialogue box" between using the "X" in upper right hand corner or using the Menubar "File "> "exit or close" options. Just a thought....

If not Taskmanager "end task" is the way to do it, as you have been doing.

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NOTE*I noticed an updated driver which included an newer "Console Panel" while at the support site of Prodigy. If yours is already updated, disregard this. If yours is functioning fine for your purposes, disregard this. I just thought I'd throw this out for an F.Y.I.

 

thanks goddez, i kinda figured it was designed that way.and yes i did disable it from the start up. i guess i'll just have to live with it . thanks again.

 

thanks tony.