Awake is failing to start due to an error when trying to set tray icon

[marck7jr]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.84.1

Installation method

WinGet

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Awake

Steps to reproduce

• Enable Awake
• Try to interact with system tray icon

✔️ Expected Behavior

• Icon with the selected mode is showing properly
• Right-click in the icon should open a menu dialog with more options

❌ Actual Behavior

• Nothing happens
• Restarting PowerToys with Awake enable are not creating system tray icon dedicated to Awake
• Event viewer is listing error items with the following contents:

Application: PowerToys.Awake.exe
CoreCLR Version: 8.0.824.36612
.NET Version: 8.0.8
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): Failed to change tray icon. Action: Update and error code: -2147467259
   at Awake.Core.TrayHelper.SetShellIcon(IntPtr hWnd, String text, Icon icon, TrayIconAction action)
   at Awake.Core.Manager.SetPassiveKeepAwake(Boolean updateSettings)
   at Awake.Core.Manager.CompleteExit(Int32 exitCode)
   at Awake.Program.Exit(String message, Int32 exitCode)
   at Awake.Program.Main(String[] args)

Faulting application name: PowerToys.Awake.exe, version: 0.84.1.0, time stamp: 0x66960000
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.22621.4111, time stamp: 0x03c619d0
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x000000000005fabc
Faulting process id: 0x0x2F64
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DB030B11152279
Faulting application path: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\PowerToys\PowerToys.Awake.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: c4c33807-238f-4ca7-9d44-ac94227debb0
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

Other Software

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[similar-issues-ai]

We've found some similar issues:

• Awake Not Able to Be Interacted With #34679 , similarity score: 86%
• Awake  #34711 , similarity score: 83%
• Awake: No System Tray Icon #34227 , similarity score: 83%
• Awake: no icon in system tray #34478 , similarity score: 82%

If any of the above are duplicates, please consider closing this issue out and adding additional context in the original issue.

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[marck7jr]

Closing this issue as it is identical to #34148