Keyboard hook

[InterestedNewbie]

Thanks Kevin, but the only thing that appears to work in this situation is ShutDownProcess (the executables to be killed are windowless programs). Also, adding a flag doesn't make a difference.

I can reach the Taskbar tray Icon with sending keys: Win+T  TAB  RIGHT  ENTER (and repeat those last two a couple of times).
This procedure will remove the orphans but it will also activate any working tray Icon which of course is undesired.....

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I found a shorter way and that is restarting explorer.exe. The orphan icons will immediately be removed after that:

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ShutDownProcess("explorer")
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run "$windows$\explorer.exe"
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key AF4         ;; Alt+F4

It doesn't appear to affect any running programs (but I will have to test that more thoroughly). I added  ALT + F4  to immediately close Windows Explorer when it pops up.