Tray Icons and System Tray Icon Software for Windows

PBBalloon & PBTray
$129 - Perfection Bytes

PBBalloon Component includes an ActiveX OCX and DLL, to show XP-style balloon messages in ANY Windows version, show system tray icons and get their location on the screen.

PBBalloon was designed specifically for developers who wish to use balloon messages in their programs. Balloon messages were introduced by Microsoft as an API in Windows XP, but thanks to PBBalloon, it is not necessary to know API, and the messages can be used in Windows 95/98/NT/Me/2000/XP/Server 2003.

PBBalloon & PBTray can even be used to add Balloon tooltips to your applications, giving them a professional look when running under any Windows version.

TrayIcon object it's included to display icons in the system tray. It includes the ability to detect the system tray Icon position on the screen, and if the icon is hidden under Windows XP/2003 Server or higher. Download now.

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Anti Boss Key - Hide windows quickly!
$29.95 - MindGems Inc.

MindGems Inc. AntiBossKey allows you to instantly hide and restore the applications ( windows) on your screen in order to prevent uninvited persons from seeing them and to protect your privacy. There are not any adware, spy ware, banners or pop ups included in this package!

Instantly hide / restore all windows on your DeskTop with a secret key combination
Set selected volume level or mute the sound when the windows are hidden
Hide tray icons
Hide desktop icnos
Hide taskbar
Switch screen resolution
Restore all applications exactly to the state before hiding
Keep the applications running to allow them perform the necessary tasks while they are hidden
Don't hide chosen windows
Don't hide chosen applications
Close the application that was active before hiding
Hide newly created windows while in "Hide" mode
Automatically start the application which you are supposed to work with ( For use at work )
Works invisibly in the background for additional privacy
Easy to use 'Drag and Drop' interface
Start screen saver and lock workstation hotkey

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12Ghosts QuickStart
$22 - 12Ghosts Inc.

Mr. 'Q' of the application launchers. Unlimitted hotkeys and tray icons for each entry. Fully customizable with a hierarchical structure and user definable descritpions and icons. Open programs, documents, websites, and special system folders like StartUp or SendTo, specific control panel pages, and even registry keys in RegEdit. 12-Quick comes with a wonderful variety of unrelated functions, like quick resolution changing, shutdown or logoff, remove formatting from clipboard text, set task sequence, or changing the middle mouse botton click to a double-click.

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SD WinHider
$19.95 - SysDevSoftware

With SD WinHider you may show, hide and manage any window or system tray icon apperance, control windows transperency, set or change windows icons, titles and so on.
Software allows to free your desktop space for more windows, change windows attributes to fit specific use, hide not required or rarely used tray icons.

The software allows:
# Hide/restore any window on your desktop;
# Hide/restore system tray (shell notification area) icons;
# Make any window visually transparent and/or transparent for mouse input;
# Replace title or icon of any window;
# Fast window hide (by pressing both left and right mouse buttons over window);
# Specify rules to perform task above automatically for any new window.

It may start with windows, process embedded rules to specify behaviour for any specific window and allow to set specific title, icon and transparency with style keeping even after program or Windows is restarted. Rules to hide system tray icons allow not show any tray icon even after program or Windows is restarted

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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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Window Magician
$19.95 - Delta-Z Software

Imagine, that your boss comes into your office when you are having a chat with your friend or reading news on the news site. What will be his reaction if he sees what you're doing? How do you think? And what happens with your career after that?

Do you like people who look from behind your back to your display and get information?

Are these well-known problems? How can you counteract them? We know a way out.

Use Window Magician!

It can hide windows, icons in the system tray, shut down applications or run your screensaver by pressing one hotkey. Then you can also restore the previous state of your screen.
If you leave you computer unattended, Window Magician can perform such actions by timeout and saves your information from the evil-wisher's view.

You can add the applications from the running processes or file on the disk to be hidden and change their behavior: to shut down, to hide their windows, to hide their system tray icons.

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