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Hi people! Haven't been on this forum for ages. Good to be back. I am writing an autoit script for colleagues who use multiple instances (windows) of a fullscreen sales application. It keeps track of which window is for which agent login, and lists those windows in a systray menu so users can taskswitch more easily. Since it is a fullscreen application I chose to do everything through the systray, to save on screen estate. The problem: the workstations have many programs running in the system tray and not very high screen resolution, so the system trays are in "hide inactive items" mode. Since the sales system is keyboard-intensive, having to switch hands to the mouse and clicking two times before they even reach the systray menu is somewhat bothersome. The solution I am looking for: a hotkey in the script that activates the systray menu of the script, so users don't have to peel open the system tray with that "show all icons" arrow before they reach the script tray icon. Possible alternative solution is to have a hotkey show a (to be made) custom popup window with buttons, but I'd like to keep using the systray. Oh, and another question: for tray items, it seems I have the choice between either checkbox items or radio control groups for the tray menu items. Not a big problem, I use radio buttons and it works kinda like a regular button, but, why can't they just be regular buttons like in every other application?