system tray win32

Ok you guys I'm a first time poster so be gentle (also I'm not sure how you react to people asking for help)  I'm trying to write a win32 application in C and I'm trying to get it the application to minimize to the system tray.

I looked up some on line tutorials and it seemed simple enough.  Simply add the icon to the system tray then hide the window, unfortunately when I hide the window the icon disappears too.  I'm finding it hard to isolate the issue with my code, has anyone here successfully made a system tray icon using the windows api?

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oh fair enough you elitist text board frequenters.  Although I managed to find a solution.  The trick is if you're going to try and catch the close window message, make sure you don't accidentally call the default windows procedure.  Simple as that.  (can't believe it tripped me up for so long)