WampServer

When I restart windows, the tray menu for Wamp doesn't appear. I do not have Windows set to hide inactive icons (though I temporarily enabled that to see if Wamp would appear when it became active anyway, to no avail). If I kill the WAMP process, and then restart it, it shows up in the tray.

Is there a command line option to get WAMP to reinstate it's tray icon. It would be nice, to allow this situation to be repaired without having to force WAMP to be terminated first.

the wamp tray icon is not installed as a service, so it will not show up every time you start your computer. to make the icon appeaar.

to make the trey icon appear, copy the wamp program to your Startup folder:

program:
C:\wamp\wampserver.exe

copy it to:
C:\Documents and Settings\_Your_User_Name_Here_\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

now restart windows and the trey icon will apear

Thanks.

Actually, it's already in the startup. But sometimes, it doesn't appear, and other times, it just disappears. When this happens, wampserver IS listed in the task list, but since there's no icon for it, I can't use it's menus etc. to shut down or restart a failed service. Or to shut down all services before rebooting, which seems to save time.

In order to get the icon back, I have to kill the wampserver process, then restart it and its fine.

Problem 1: It doesn't always show up during startup. Pushed out by the slew of programs starting?

Problem 2: the icon disappears (again, not hidden). I've seen other programs do this when explorer crashes (which does happen). When it restarts, and the task bar restarts, some programs recover their icon, and others don't. Wampserver doesnt.

Perhaps if you just set the program so that starting a second instance of wampserver fixes the icon (note if you try to start it again it doesn't start--it obviously checks and sees an instance is started, it just doesn't realize the icon in the system tray is gone.)

right click on the start button and select Properties. make sure the Taskbar tab is selected in the top tab, then click on customize button. . scroll down the list until you see the WAMP. select it, and change it to always show. click on ok

CyberSpatium wrote:

> right click on the start button and select Properties. make
> sure the Taskbar tab is selected in the top tab, then click on
> customize button. . scroll down the list until you see the
> WAMP. select it, and change it to always show. click on ok

I don't have "Hide Inactive Icons" turned on.

I have this exact same problem. It only shows when the server is started manually. If I start it automaticly when the computer starts, no try icon (but the server is still operational).

Same problem. And it gives me a lot of problems when I want to select something in PHP extensions.

I tried a vbs script which delay to run the program for 15 sec, and using a short cut in Startup folder to run it. Works for me so far.

Very simple:

Make a text file in the wamp folder.
Copy these 3 lines into this file:

Set ss = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"
WScript.Sleep 15000
ss.run "C:\Program_Files\wamp\wampserver.exe",7

Save and close.
Rename the file extension .txt to .vbs
Open the startup folder make shortcut to the vbs file in the startup folder.
If you want to change 15 sec to something else change the 15000 to another value.

The 7 at the end makes programs start minimized, but I guess it is not needed in this case. My WAMP is installed in "Program_Files" not "Program Files".

I add some other info I found below.

'==============
'Run and Minimize
'object.Run(strCommand, [intWindowStyle], [bWaitOnReturn])
'intWindowStyle: Optional. Integer value indicating the appearance of the program's window.
' Note that not all programs make use of this information.
' - use 7 for minimize

'http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/0a8270d7-7d8f-4368-b2a7-065acb52fc54.asp

'==============
'StartupDelay.vbs - Sequentially run programs at Windows startup.
'Edit for your programs and delay, and put a shortcut to this
'script in your Startup folder. Full path to program may be needed.
'Copy and paste the 5 lines for adding more programs.
'© Bill James - bill@billsway.com - created 4 Nov 2002
'
SecondsToDelay = "1"
ProgramToRun = "C:\Program\fulDC\DCPlusPlus.exe" 'may need full path
Wscript.Sleep(SecondsToDelay * 1000)
Prog = Chr(34) & ProgramToRun & Chr(34)
CreateObject("WScript.Shell".Run(Prog)

'==============
'Another Script
'
Set ss = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"
WScript.Sleep 15000
ss.run Chr(34) & "C:\Program\fulDC\DCPlusPlus.exe" & chr(34)

if you have setup apache and mysql to start automatically when you start your computer, it starts apache.exe and mysql.exe seperately. when you start wamp manually, you are starting the wampserver.exe program which starts the wamp program as well as apache and mysql.

CyberSpatium
WAMP English Forum Admin

I have had this issue too, and not sure if this has been answered before or not, so here is what works for me.

Go to Windows Task Manager
Go to the Processes tab and find WAMPMA~1.EXE
End the process
Restart wampmanager.exe

Should stay in the tray after that...for a while, but its an easy fix whenever it happens again.