For most PC users, the Windows System Tray is used to occasionally check the date and time, and, more rarely, to run a program or two. Yet, this relatively small area of screen real estate has always had the potential to revolutionize the Windows Desktop, making it a pivotal tool for increasing productivity and performance.
Enter 'Active Tray', the Windows System Tray 'Super-Charger'! Now the System Tray can truly become what it was always meant to be.
Active Tray lets you launch a favorite website, open a folder, or configure a hotkey for rapid access to a program. Imagine being able to create cascading popup menus containing your most important tasks! You can even add password protection and balloon tips to those popup menu shortcuts.
Each tray icon can now have individually defined settings, as can each popup menu. You can also change the overall appearance of the tray (icons, menus, separators, etc).
Active Tray is extremely intuitive; being both...
AllToTray 4.6.3
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...
Price: USD $9.99;
File Size: 585 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Tray Expert 3.0
Tray Expert 3 is a desktop application that allows you to launch your favorite programs, music, pictures, games, and websites from a skinnable menu that pops up next to your clock at the bottom-right of your screen. You will be able to create...
Price: USD $4.95;
File Size: 280 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
PS Tray Factory 2.5
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...
Price: USD $24.95;
File Size: 900 KB;
Platform: Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95
Iconic Tray 1.21
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...
Price: USD $14.95;
File Size: 46 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
12Ghosts TrayProtect 7.10
To keep track of many tray icons you may hide those that you don't need all the time. You can still access such hidden tray icons in the context menu of 12-Tray.
12-Tray will also restore tray icons after a 'crash' or restart of the taskbar...
Price: USD $29.95;
File Size: 1464 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
SysTrayX 3.70
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...
Price: USD $26.00, EUR 20;
File Size: 442 KB;
Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
TheBest Tray Minimizer 1.05
No matter if Firefox, Acrobat Reader, Excel, MS Office, Microsoft Powerpoint, Firefox Browser: Each program can be minimized into the info area (tray) (next to the system clock). Minimizes any Programs (like for exmaple Thunderbird) (as Icon) into...
Price: USD $19.95, EUR 19.95;
File Size: 1624 KB;
Platform: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 2003, Windows 2000
TheBest MinimizeToTray 1.04
No matter if Firefox, Acrobat, Excel, Office, Microsoft Powerpoint, Firefox: Each program can be minimized into the info area (tray) (next to the system clock). Minimizes any Programs (like for exmaple Thunderbird) (as Icon) into the info area...
Price: USD $19.95, EUR 19.95;
File Size: 1625 KB;
Platform: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows 2003, Windows 2000
Active Virtual Desktop 2.01
Ever wished you had several screens on your computer? Active Virtual Desktop is a virtual desktop manager which will create up to 9 virtual desktops allowing you to have different programs running on each of them. This virtual desktop manager...
Price: USD $19.95, EUR 18.95;
File Size: 1263 KB;
Platform: Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95
Captain Tray Pro 6.4
Captain Tray Pro is a simple and effective tool for tray management under Windows OS.
A lot of users need to work with several applications at once. Some of them are used quite regularly, others only when necessary. The Windows Taskbar can be...
Price: USD $18.95;
File Size: 1235 KB;
Platform: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003