I can't imagine that you wouldn't be able to manually add the notification area. It probably just won't be enabled or installed by default. As a last resort, yo

I can't imagine that you wouldn't be able to manually add the notification area. It probably just won't be enabled or installed by default. As a last resort, you can just enable it, but for developers who want their programs to be easy to use, they'll have to make sense for the many users who won't have notification areas.