Silent Running - Taskbar Tray Icons

Stan Kasper 1,376

I am using Skype on 20H2. I believe I set it up for a user account to automatically log on. The Skype icon appears on the taskbar tray. I run autoruns and I do not see where/how Skype has been started. How is Skype being run? I do not see it in the 'run' registry under current user or local machine. I do not see it under task manager in startup.

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Castorix31 83,106 Reputation points

2020-10-30T09:20:00.513+00:00

It is a Background Task
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Stan Kasper 1,376 Reputation points

2020-10-30T16:16:04.487+00:00

Ok. But I do not see how it is started in either autoruns or autoruns64. Where in the Windows registry would the setting be to run Skype automatically on user logon? It doesnt appear to be a service nor is it in any of the 'run registry keys. And I do not see it in the task scheduler. It is rather odd that it does not show up in autoruns unless I am missing something.

valdom 16 Reputation points

2020-10-30T16:45:33.437+00:00

It is explained in the link : tasks are triggered on events like InternetAvailable, OnlineIdConnectedStateChange, ...
(autoruns has not been updated for months)

Stan Kasper 1,376 Reputation points

2020-10-30T17:16:04.673+00:00

My apologies - didnt realize it was a link. It blended in with the theme I use and was hard to see.
And yes. Did realize autoruns has not been updated for over a year.

Thank you.
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