Thanks for your suggestion.

I have added this request to the tracker:
Issue 2193 – Always show system tray icon
You can vote for it there.

I have "Minimize main window to taskbar status area (system tray)" enabled (BTW, it is called 'taskbar notification area' and not taskbar status area).

When i restore WinSCP from the notification area the icon disappear and the icons in the notification area moves because one icon disappear.

Same thing when i minimize WinSCP again, the icon is added and the location of the icons moves again.

I would like to have an option to always show the icon in the notification area and to minimize and restore WinSCP by either one or two mouse clicks on the icon.

This is a very common behavior in other application.