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DirectX	24
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Windows	8
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System Tray Icon
Gil Dabah, Oren Becker
This short tutorial shows how to add icons to the system tray.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions
March, 2000 - Michael Dunn
This article shows just about any aspect of how to make Explorer extensions.