



4t Tray Minimizer lets you running applications minimized as System Tray icons. The System tray icons can be hidden to let you easily read the buttons on your taskbar. Also you can customize the favorites with special hiding behavior and launch key.
Minimizes for you any desired programe to an Icon in the tray area directly next to the System clock. Programs can be secured against undesigned Closing and a Boss-Key (to quickly hide unallowed appliucations) is integrated, too.
One-for-all hotkey manager: launcher, clip extender and tray minimizer, screenshoter (auto save to folder), workplace extender, task killer, volume controller, other useful features
InstallAware for Windows Installer can import existing MSI setup packages and let you customize their behavior. Using the redistributable automation interface, you may also remotely build your setups over web pages or on end-user machine's.

Minimize To Tray
$9.95 - RexTeam Ltd
Since Windows operating system doesn't provide the default ability to minimize any window to the system tray, Minimize To Tray was developed for this single purpose.
Minimize To Tray is a small but powerful utility which is only needed to be installed to bring the hide-to-tray ability online in the quickest and easiest way: you can hide application by shortcut key or you may choose applications which will be always minimized to system tray.
Minimize, hide any application to system tray, you can use it like boss key. Hide them all! You can minimize application by shortcut key. You may choose applications which will be always minimized to tray, it's really easy to use. Minimize them all now! You can hide them too! It does not require any additional configuration. Minimize To Tray supports Windows Vista. Minimize To Tray hiding all windows applications. Free support after buy included.
Minimize To Tray is an award winning Windows application designed for improvement of standard Windows taskbar. Minimize To Tray allows to hide any running program to system tray area (aka notification area).
Minimize To Tray tested under Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP (all editions), Windows Vista (all editions).
All Windows application can be hidden to tray using Minimize To Tray system utility.
For example Minimize To Tray supports Microsoft Office 2007, Internet Explorer, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Outlook Express, Media Player, Thunderbird, FireFox, Opera, Foobar, Putty, WinAmp etc.
You can use Minimize To Tray to hide running programs or games on your work computer from boss.
Lightweight and ease of use of this small system utility noted by many of our customers and reviewers.
The software makes it easy to manage the applications and the task bar does not remain filled up with the opened programs. It?s good utility software to be installed to your personal computers.
Try it and you'll like it!

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.

PS Tray Factory
$24.95 - PS Soft Lab
PS Tray Factory is a powerful and handy tool meant to flexibly control ALL the other icons in the system tray of the taskbar. PS Tray Factory will help you to manage all the applications that place their icons in the taskbar tray. When you have installed PS Tray Factory, you will forget about the problem of lack of space in the system tray, and will also get an easy, fast and handy tool to handle those applications. In short, ALL Windows users will get this handy and powerful tool at their disposal, whereas only Windows XP users have an idea of it. For the latter, we have made a nice surprise, as the features of PS Tray Factory exceed the standard built-in ones of this OS.
PS Tray Factory is a system tray icons manager that will allows you to: hide low-activity icons from a system tray into menu, get fast access to hidden icons, change the order of icons in the menu, change the order of icons in the system tray (sort system tray icons), hide from the menu seldom used icons, protect tray menu with password, minimize any application to tray, restore icons in system tray area at crash or restarting Explorer.exe, change original tray icons with your own icons.
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.
TrayIcon Pro
$22 - MetaProducts Corporation
TrayIcon Pro is a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003 32-bit application that was developed to let you quickly run your favorite applications and folders directly from the system tray.
TrayIcon Pro lets you add icons for these applications and folders to the tray itself or into menus that sit behind icons in the tray. Finally, the functionality of our whole TrayIcon range is brought together in one easy-to-use application.
The new version adds support for Netscape Bookmarks and Opera Hotlists as well as a history of recently browsed URLs. So, you can easily browse Web sites directly from your tray!
Another great feature is the ability to minimize any of your application to the system tray. TrayIcon Pro adds its button next to the standard Minimize/Maximize/Close button to all windows. You can choose to minimize the application to a separate tray icon or to a menu in the tray.
The new version allows you to protect icons from being started with a password - to limit access to some programs if the computer is shared between several users.

Actual Window Minimizer
$19.95 - Actual Tools
Actual Window Minimizer belongs to the family of the next generation system enhancement applications. The program sports such unconventional functions as window minimization to the system tray and to the desktop edge, automatic minimization of an inactive window plus minimization of an application to the tray at its launch.
The program seamlessly integrates into Windows and functions totally transparently throughout the Operating System. Therefore, new minimization options are available in virtually any system window. Minimize-to-Tray control is visually represented as another Windows-style title bar button placed next to the Minimize/Restore/Close buttons. Besides, the program allows redefining the action of the standard Minimize button so that it will fold up an application into an icon and place it either in the tray or on the desktop edge. Minimization can be triggered via title bar buttons, contextual menu or hotkeys.
Actual Window Minimizer is a must-have for all users who regularly multitask in several applications at a time. With the standard Windows method, trying to work in a dozen or more programs was far too daunting a job. Today, however, it is fast and simple. Our customers will no longer see window clutter on the taskbar. They won't waste time on hunting for a particular program in that mess. There will be fewer risks of closing right applications by mistake, fewer distracting clicks, less strain and stress. Want to have a better control of your windows? Then, Actual Window Minimizer is the way to go!
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