TrayEverything minimizes any app to the Windows sysem tray

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TrayEverything minimizes any app to the Windows sysem tray

by Brad Linder Oct 10th 2008

You can clear up space on a Windows desktop by minimizing applications you're not currently looking at to the taskbar. But what happens when the taskbar is so overrun with programs that you can't make heads or tales of it? Wouldn't it be nice if you could just minimize your applications to the system tray? TrayEverything is a Windows utility that lets you do just that.

Just download and install (or download the no-install ZIP version) of TrayEverything and run it. You'll see a list of running applications. Right click on any program you want to minimize to the system tray and it will disappear from the desktop and Windows taskbar. In the system tray you'll see a small icon representing the program. Just click that icon to bring the program back up.

Note that TrayEverything needs to be run each time you want to minimize an application to the system tray. Once it's restored, clicking the program's minimize button will send it to the taskbar, not the system tray. If you're looking for a more permanent solution, you might want to check out Trayconizer, a command line utility that you can add to any program shortcut in order to automatically minimize it to the system tray whenever you hit the minimize button.

[via gHacks]

Tags: system-tray, taskbar, trayconizer, trayeverything

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

LinearMode said 1:14PM on 10-10-2008

never heard of trayconizer, thanks

David said 1:15PM on 10-10-2008

is there something like this for linux? jw...
of course, there isn't as big of a need for it cuz linux does window management better:)

yep said 1:15PM on 10-10-2008

I prefer TrayIt! (http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm) once it's running, just right click the X on the application and it goes to the tray. No wonky extra windows to worry about.

Martin said 2:44PM on 10-10-2008

yep Tray Everything supports that feature as well, it can be activated in the options.

RompeRatones said 4:43PM on 10-10-2008

i like dm2 http://dm2.sf.net

Samuel said 7:10AM on 10-15-2008

Fuck, just look at this interface. Microsoft don't stand a chance again Apple. Not at all.

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