You've gone from one extreme to another. Anyone with half a brain knows how to minimize an explorer window and open another. Now it requires how many mouseclicks just to find the status of your current job, and there's no indication an on-demand job was started except the tray icon.
How about showing the current job and status in a mouseover of the tray icon at least?
Also FYI the new tray icon looks extremely gimmicky and unprofessional.
A radiation warning icon, seriously? Are we 1337 h4X0rz now?