System Tray and Simple System Tray Imap Client Software for Windows

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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ASTC
$39.9 - CprinGold Software

ASTC component provides an easy way to enable your VB, VC++, C#, VB.NET, or other COM environment applications to add four powerful functionality to your applications.

* Tray Icon ActiveX Control.
* Tray List ActiveX Control.
* Subclass ActiveX Control.
* Balloon ActiveX Control.

TrayIcon ActiveX Control Features:

* very easy way to add icon to systray in, no need to use Shell_NotifyIcon API function again.
* Show the icon in animation state.
* Assign a tooltip for the icon.
* Check the current state of the icon [visible or invisible].
* Show a balloon tool tip even displaying on win9x.
* Change the icon and tooltip in run time.
* Ability to assign a popup menu for a particular event happen to the icon even displaying on win9x.
* Track Popup menu so whenever your program lost focus the popup menu will be closed.
* Show more than one icon in the system tray.

TrayList ActiveX Control Features:

* Get all the information about the systray icons.
* Hide any specified icon from system tray area.

SubClass ActiveX Control Features:

You can use SubClass ActiveX control to subclass any window in which had a handle/hwnd Property, so you can subclass Forms, textbox, rich textbox, tree view, list box, labels or any kind of controls that you can get it's handle, there is no need to use SetWindowLong API function again Or worry about your application Crashing due to using the SubClass technique.

Balloon ActiveX Control Features:

* Assign a balloon tooltip to a particular control or a window.
* Customize the balloon BackColor and ForeColor.
* Customize the Balloon Style [Balloon or Rectangle].
* Custom events associated with the balloon [BalloonHide, BalloonLeftClick, BalloonRightClick and BalloonShow].


The ASTC 1.50 installer package contain sample code of using the four controls in the following languages Vb6.0, VC++6.0, VB.Net, VC#.NET and VJ#.NET.

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STI
$15 - CprinGold Software

STI component provides an easy way to enable your VB, VC++, C#, VB.NET, or other COM environment applications to get system tray icons and all the information about these icons also you can hide a specified icon from system tray area.

STI consists of one object: TrayIcons object.
TrayIcons object provides the ability to get system tray icons. It supports get all system tray icons, hide specified icon, you can also use STI as system tray manager and get all the inforamtion of the applications running in systray like application path ,uID, hWnd, hIcon, Tooltip and uCallbackMessage.

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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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4t Tray Minimizer Free
$0 - 4t Niagara Software

4t Tray Minimizer lets you running applications minimized as System Tray icons, which helps in adjusting free space on your taskbar. To minimize any application to the task bar, simply left click the minimize button as usual or press keyboard shortcut. You can configure 4t Tray Minimizer to automatically hide/restore specific applications by pressing specific keyboard shortcuts.

Desktop Enhancements:
- Hides system tray icons
- Launches Desktop programs from the system tray
- 'Minimize to tray' and 'Hide window' buttons on the title bar of any window
- 'Minimize to tray' and 'Hide window' items in the system menu of any window

Minimizing to tray:
-Minimizes to tray any application. MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express and any other application can be minimized to System tray
-Hides any application. Any application can be hidden without displaying its icon in the System tray
-One tray icon for multiple instances. This feature allows minimizing multiple instances of an application in the same tray icon
-Supports animated icons. For example, if your mail client (MS Outlook) changes the icon on the new message arrival, its tray icon changes accordingly
-Shows/Hides icons in the Alt+Tab dialog
-Hides and Restores all opening application

For your favorite application:
-Customized keyboard shortcuts for quick launching and hiding your favorite application
-Customized 'How to hide the application' options
-Customized options of behavior in the hidden mode
-The favorite application can be auto hidden as soon as it is executed or as soon as it is deactivated
-Option to launch only one instance of the favorite application
-Restores and brings up. 4t Tray Minimizer allows bringing up your favorite application by pressing the customized keyboard shortcut
-Minimizes and Restores all instances of the favorite application
-Customizing tray icon. 4t Tray Minimizer allows you customizing tray icon for your favorite application

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Scotts Wallpaper Switcher
$12 - SB-Software

Scott's Wallpaper Switcher is a system tray tool designed to allow you to quickly switch between wallpapers on your windows desktop. You can also configure the program to automatically switch wallpapers at predetermined intervals (like every 5 minutes). There is a built in "boss key" feature where clicking the system tray icon will bring up a "safe" wallpaper just in case you are in the habit of running inappropriate wallpapers on your windows desktop. Includes multiple specialy wallpaper display modes allowing some nonstandard wallpaper sizes to be used on your desktop with minimum distortion. Supports Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP. Simple no-nonsense software that gets the job done.

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