Putting apps in the system tray

[Vance Roos]

I sometimes have apps running in the background which I don't want to
see as a tab on the taskbar.

Is there a way to modify something to make the apps shrink to the
system tray instead of the taskbar?

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

I sometimes have apps running in the background which I don't want to
see as a tab on the taskbar.

Is there a way to modify something to make the apps shrink to the
system tray instead of the taskbar?

The only way I know to do it is to write this facility into the program
in question. Some programs have it, many don't. I don't know any way to
'impose' it on some program that was not designed to do it (but that
doesn't mean there isn't one .. just that I've never seen it).

 

[Steve]

http://www.shelltoys.com/minimize_tray/minimize_to_system_tray.html

Try this app.

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Vance - There's a free third party program called TrayMin which used to
be available from PC Mag which will do
this. You can still get it here: http://pacon.free.fr/traymin.zip
Basically, you just right click on the Min box to minimize it to the tray.
Works fine.

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[Jim Byrd]

Hi Vance - Well, I don't know if you've some sort of XP specific problem or
not. I've found that there are, very occasionally, some windows that
TrayMin won't minimize (I've got one - see below). You might see if it
works on other windows than just the one you tried it on. Otherwise,
there's another approach you can try using a program called HideIt, free,
here: http://www.expocenter.com/hideit/ This one's not as convenient since
you have to select the window you're interested in from a list of active
windows in the program and uncheck it, which then hides it (rather than
minimizes it - the window is still there and active using resources, which
may not be what you're after). HideIt itself, of course, you put in the
Tray. I use it for the express purpose of automatically hiding one
particular window at boot up that TrayMin won't minimize off of the Task Bar
(a DFX equalizer I use in conjunction with a streaming radio audio player
while I work - ViddiPlayer, http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/ which is in my
Tray ). Perhaps that will help.

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[Jim Byrd]

HiVance - Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm on Win2kPro.

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[Vance Roos]

Hi Vance - Well, I don't know if you've some sort of XP specific
problem or not. I've found that there are, very occasionally,
some windows that TrayMin won't minimize (I've got one - see
below). You might see if it works on other windows than just
the one you tried it on. Otherwise, there's another approach
you can try using a program called HideIt, free, here:
http://www.expocenter.com/hideit/ This one's not as convenient
since you have to select the window you're interested in from a
list of active windows in the program and uncheck it, which then
hides it (rather than minimizes it - the window is still there
and active using resources, which may not be what you're after).
HideIt itself, of course, you put in the Tray. I use it for
the express purpose of automatically hiding one particular
window at boot up that TrayMin won't minimize off of the Task
Bar (a DFX equalizer I use in conjunction with a streaming radio
audio player while I work - ViddiPlayer,
http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/ which is in my Tray ).
Perhaps that will help.

Jim, I hav elloed at this some more and I can make it work. For some
reason I have to right double-click and then it goes to the system
tray. A single left click while it is there restores it.

So it does work on XP. And it is very nice. Thank you for that.

It is free and compared to $20 for Active Captions which doesn't do
a whole lot more it is very good value indeed!

http://www.shelltoys.com/minimize_tray/minimize_to_system_tray.html
or http://snurl.com/2fap

 

[Jim Byrd]

YW. Vance - Glad you've gotten it working.

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