Tray Minimizer and Minimize To Tray Software for Windows

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.

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Thunderbird-Tray
$0 - Felix Geyer

Thunderbird-Tray is a system tray launcher tool for Mozilla Thunderbird, the popular e-mail client. You can use TB-Tray to hide Thunderbird to the tray while you don't need it. When you click the tray icon, TB-Tray will restore Thunderbird. It also has a menu of options for quick access to Thunderbird features. Thunderbird-Tray is freeware (open source) and licensed under the GPL.

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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!

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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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