THERE ' S POO ALL OVER MY HOODPXS 9 rXZe 7 A <| sep |> In your own words , what ' s it to you ? I need something to cry it out to . Seems like there ' re a few fixes <| sep |> It sounds like WMI Windows Management Instrumentation may be the nearest equivalent you are looking for . It is typically used through powershell or VBScript . I believe it has the capability to capture events like networks changing . in Windows I guess I ' d put in the system trayFun little side bar the little area next to the clock is , and always has been , officially called the Notification Area . the term System Tray is actually a misnomer back in Windows 95 , people noticed that if you ended the SYSTRAY . EXE task , the default icons like the volume control icon would disappear the logical conclusion made was that the program was in control of those icons , and the area was called the System Tray . But as it happens , SYSTRAY . EXE was actually named earlier in development of the Windows 95 shell , when it managed a search button and search textbox that sat next to the start menu . Sounds familiar . This was a little area you could organize icons and was similar to the desktop itself but could be moved around , and was called the System Tray , but it was replaced with the now familiar Taskbar .