Ray and Minimize To Tray Software for Windows

BeTrayed
$0 - John Foster

BeTrayed! is a small 32 bit command line utility which allows you to easily add a collection of shortcuts to the System Tray (Notification Area in Microsoft speak) It allows you to quickly access frequently used folders, files, URLs and applications - even though they were never designed to be launched from the Tray.

For maximum flexibility, BeTrayed! functions in two modes, either single command mode or, more usually, in Batch mode where it adds multiple icons to the Tray, all managed by one instance of BeTrayed! - in both modes, you specify the command to launch and, optionally, the tooltip text to show and an alternative icon. If not specified, the tooptip defaults to the command line and the icon to the default icon contained in the file (or if there isn't one, the one for the associated application)

For instance, to add a single icon to the System Tray to launch Calc, you could use:

BeTrayed c:windowssystem32calc.exe,Calculator

This would create a new Tray icon (with the default icon from Calc.exe), which would show a tooltip of 'Calculator'

In batch mode, the parameter passed to BeTrayed! is actually the name of a text file containing the individual command lines. To use Batch mode with BeTrayed!, simple pass BeTrayed! the name of the controlling text file, prefixed with "/batch:" ie.

BeTrayed /batch:Standard.tray

BeTrayed! would now look for a file called 'Standard.tray' - which would contain a list of appropriate commands, ie.

;Sample BeTrayed! batch mode control file
; Anything beginning with a semi-colon is a comment!
; Windows Calc using default Calc.exe icon
c:windowssystem32calc.exe,Windows Calculator
; Users shared area via UNC path, using custom icon.
JBFDataUsersShared,User Shared Area,sa.ico
; Launch URL with default browser (using 3rd icon in browser exe)
List,3

From the above 'Standard.tray' file, 3 icons would be added to the Tray.

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AllToTray
$9.99 - DNTSoft

AllToTray allows you to minimize ANY window to your System Tray. It adds the option -Minimize to Tray- to the System menu of the window. If you have checked this option, this tool will minimize the window to your System Tray any time you minimize it. You minimize the window as usually (mouse or keyboard). To restore the window just click on its icon from the System Tray.

There are also three possibilities to quickly minimize to Tray : right click on the minimize/maximize/close button of the window OR press and hold down the SHIFT/CONTROL key when you minimize OR use hotkey.

New features : recovers all icons from tray when Explorer crashes, support multiple users, support Afx windows, use hotkey to minimize to tray, new interface, use hotkeys to restore/close all windows from the system tray or close all minimized windows from the tray and taskbar, use hotkey to switch to another minimized window.

You will find this program useful for many programs : Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, MS Office application, Notepad,Command prompt.

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Iconic Tray
$14.95 - dnSoft Research Group

Iconic Tray is a tiny utility which lets you minimize any window either to the system tray (notification area in Windows XP), or to a special new tray provided by Iconic Tray itself (see image). Whichever method you choose - bye bye those clogged up taskbars!
Iconic Tray is very useful to hide seldom used or background applications which occupy your taskbar and hinder quick switching among those you use most often. Moreover, minimized applications use less processor time and memory - your system performance may even increase!
Minimizing to the Iconic Tray and/or the system tray is easy: simply right-click (or middle-click) on the window's "Minimize" button. Anytime you want to view the minimized windows, just open the Iconic Tray icon to see a menu list - click on a window in the list and it's back on screen again. It really is that easy. Of course, if you had chosen to minimize to the system tray, just restore your window as you would any other tray icon.
As small as it is, Iconic Tray will do this job admirably - and what's more, it's simple to configure too. The icon for Iconic Tray can appear either as a small button next to the system tray, or as an icon in the system tray itself. The preferences dialog allows you to change all the default settings, plus, you can define system wide hotkeys to carry out all the functions mentioned above.

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Clock Tray Skins Lite
$0 - Drive Software Company

View the time, seconds, month, week and day in different skins in the Windows system tray clock. Clock Tray Skins is the advanced replacement for standard Windows tray clock. Over 50 skins are included in the distribution.
It's also an atomic-time synchronizer.


They search for us.

> Needs to work with XP. Also has to show day,
> date, month, and time in seconds.
I use Clock Tray Skins v2.0 in WinXP and it works fine. You can find it at download.com


show seconds in tray clock
> Hi,
> Where or how do I get the clock in the tray to show
> HH:MM:SS? (win 95 and win 2k)
Various "enhancement" programs do this well. A popular one is Clock Tray Skins: ... "Several useful features."


Adding seconds display to system tray clock
> Is there any way to have the seconds display
> on the system tray clock?
Clock Tray Skins > Google.com It does this and more.

Systerm Tray Clock
> How do I make WinXP Pro's System Tray Clock display
> seconds in addition to hours and minutes at all times...
> permanently (without having to double click it)?
Use Clock Tray Skins from:
...
Best systray clock I have ever found!


Displaying seconds on tray
> Hello,
>
> Is there anybody who knows how to show not only
> hours & minutes but also seconds ?
Try Clock Tray Skins...

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SysTrayX
$29 - XDESKSOFTWARE

SysTrayX is designed to maximize the way you can use your system tray and is doing that with a few important features :
- SysTrayX helps you hide some of the less used icons from the system tray - the hidden icons can still be seen and used in the special SysTrayX menu but will no longer permanently take precious space from your system tray;
- provide recovery for those icons if anything happens to the system tray;
- SysTrayX can also keep the tray icons sorted in a constant order.

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X-Ray Mail Assistant
$0 - X-Ray Application Software.

X-Ray is an email header filter and POP/SMTP server switching tool. It runs as a local POP/SMTP relay server and scans your incoming and/or outgoing mail for user specified mail headers. Once it finds a match it can change the header, remove it, replace it or perform some other special modifications. In addition, the program allows you to set up multiple profiles for POP and SMTP servers and switch between them from the system tray. X-Ray can also run as an NT service.

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