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by mixdup 598 days ago
I mean they called it systray.exe, it had no other name in the Windows 95/98 interface, so what else should we have called it?

It's like at my current company, we have a legacy product called Volcano, but we don't sell it anymore. However components of it still exist in our current products/platform, so when the Volcano service fails or needs to be reconfigured, the management types get upset that we still call it Volcano. The only problem is that specific component, while not customer facing, still exists and they never renamed it. Don't bitch at me because I have to literally communicate to the support team to fiddle the Volcano button

Moral of the story is, if they didn't want it to be called the system tray they shouldn't have named it system tray dot executable, and should've been more intentional in documentation and elsewhere at publicizing a different name