[Bug]: Unable to create status tray icon on Windows 10

[felipecrs]

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Electron Version

29.1.6

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

Windows 10 Version 22H2

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Electron version

26

Expected Behavior

The tray icon to be created normally when a uuid is used, as it used to be in Electron 26.

Actual Behavior

Tray icon only gets created when the application is first installed. Try installing/updating the application with the same tray icon uuid and tray icon will no longer be created.

Testcase Gist URL

No response

Additional Information

Replaying what I wrote in #41721:

I know this issue is almost 10 years old, but I am facing this exact same problem after upgrading my application from Electron from 26 to 28.

[13988:0201/145554.280:WARNING:notify_icon.cc(62)] Unable to create status tray icon.
[13988:0201/145554.289:WARNING:notify_icon.cc(143)] Error setting status tray icon image
[13988:0201/145554.296:WARNING:notify_icon.cc(159)] Unable to set tooltip for status tray icon

And, as suggested by @anaisbetts, removing GUID from the tray icon indeed brings the tray icon back.

Note however I can only reproduce this bug in Windows 10, not Windows 11.

Originally posted by @felipecrs in #2468 (comment)

[codebytere]

@felipecrs unfortunately there's not much we can do about this at this juncture - see #21891 which brought it back for requisite caveats to using the GUID.

[felipecrs]

@codebytere that PR is from 2020. I believe it was merged way before Electron 26, and this is not an issue with Electron 26.

I have a reproducible environment, where if I downgrade Electron to 26, the issue occurs.