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http://growl.info/documentation/developer/introduction.php: Growl is a system for posting notifications to users.

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Nothing as popular as Grown on mac but the standard Win32 API to do notifications is Shell_NotifyIcon. You can see a sample project here on codeproject: Adding Icons to the System Tray.

Brian R. Bondy
Well Growl is more high level than Win32 and more about hooking the system than just put an icon but thanks for answer.
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Growl, but for Windows: http://www.growlforwindows.com

libraries for several programming language and the documentation for the protocol it uses can be found here: http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/developers.aspx

Wow great thanks so you've got the right answer :)