Minimize To System Tray Freebie?

[tobacco]

Lately, i've run into a few programs that can't be minimized to the system tray. Only choices are the task bar which i prefer not too cluttered or close down the program.

Besides toolbar types like rocketdock, is there a free program that can minimize to tray programs that don't?? Running vista32.

Thanks

[Johnny123]

Take a look at this (http://www.askvg.com/how-to-minimize-an-application-to-system-tray-in-windows/). I've never tried it myself, but usually the tips available on askvg.com are pretty good.

[Greg S]

-{ Quote: "Lately, i've run into a few programs that can't be minimized to the system tray. Only choices are the task bar which i prefer not too cluttered or close down the program.

Besides toolbar types like rocketdock, is there a free program that can minimize to tray programs that don't?? Running vista32.

Thanks" }-
http://rbtray.sourceforge.net/

[tobacco]

-{ Quote: "http://rbtray.sourceforge.net/" }-

Thanks for the replies!

Installed this one first and so far, working great :thumb: Sweet to put Iron Chrome in the tray also :D

[tobacco]

Well for whatever reason, RBTray stopped minimizing iron to the tray so i booted it to the curb "WITH MY WORKBOOTS ON'! :P

And am i ever glad i did cause i found this super freebie that works on 32/64 - http://www.4t-niagara.com/tray.html

Right clicking the minimize button brings up a menu for minimizing to the system tray or you can add extra buttons (tray, rollup/roll down, keep on top, transparency) as seen in the image below. You can even "Hide" a window and it's tray icon ;) :P ;)

Iron has to be put in the tray with the 4t Tray "minimize all" function but it still works and so far, a nice program.

[drone]

I'm using Tray! It:

http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm

because it's small, portable and (in my system) reliable

[Greg S]

-{ Quote: "Well for whatever reason, RBTray stopped minimizing iron to the tray so i booted it to the curb "WITH MY WORKBOOTS ON'! :P

And am i ever glad i did cause i found this super freebie that works on 32/64 - http://www.4t-niagara.com/tray.html

Right clicking the minimize button brings up a menu for minimizing to the system tray or you can add extra buttons (tray, rollup/roll down, keep on top, transparency) as seen in the image below. You can even "Hide" a window and it's tray icon ;) :P ;)

Iron has to be put in the tray with the 4t Tray "minimize all" function but it still works and so far, a nice program." }-
Interested in this one but it doesn't seem to work for me. No new titlebar icons show up for me no matter what settings I choose.

[tobacco]

-{ Quote: "Interested in this one but it doesn't seem to work for me. No new titlebar icons show up for me no matter what settings I choose." }-

Hey Greg

Seems to work fine on vista32 but doesn't add the extra buttons to browser windows. Mostly everything else though including windows explorer. For the browsers, you just right click on the 4t tray icon and select "minimize to tray all".

[ruinebabine]

No better than PowerPro for this task as well (but need to be ready to invest time to be in a certain comforting control, and i probably use only 10% of all the functions it can offer).

[tobacco]

-{ Quote: "No better than PowerPro for this task as well (but need to be ready to invest time to be in a certain comforting control, and i probably use only 10% of all the functions it can offer)." }-

Looks like it hasn't been updated beyond XP. What ya runnin??

[ruinebabine]

-{ Quote: "Looks like it hasn't been updated beyond XP. What ya runnin??" }-
XP pro, but there is constant development from its commnunity members and the author himself keeps a close eye on its baby and is usualy responsive anough to users inquiries. Please have a check at their yahoo board as an example, the fresh betas have to be grab from there...

[Greg S]

-{ Quote: "Hey Greg

Seems to work fine on vista32 but doesn't add the extra buttons to browser windows. Mostly everything else though including windows explorer. For the browsers, you just right click on the 4t tray icon and select "minimize to tray all"." }-
How did you get those 4 extra butons on the titlebar?

[tobacco]

-{ Quote: "How did you get those 4 extra butons on the titlebar?" }-

I selected those options during the install process. If you bring up the menu through the 4t tray icon and select "options", you can also do this here as evidenced by the included image. Second pic is another example of how the extra buttons were added to my Snagit program.

[Greg S]

-{ Quote: "I selected those options during the install process. If you bring up the menu through the 4t tray icon and select "options", you can also do this here as evidenced by the included image. Second pic is another example of how the extra buttons were added to my Snagit program." }-
Ok, I don't get any of that in the options dialog. Are you running a paid version of it? I have all the options that you have in the left sidebar, but the one for Titlebar does not give me what you are showing.

[Greg S]

Got it working now! This could be a keeper if I could manage to replace the titlebar buttons backgrounds with the ones for Soft7.msstyles. At the very least I'd like to get rid of the blue glow it has on hover. I've made a few attempts so far with no success. Any hardcore themers out there willing to help on that?

221408

[tobacco]

-{ Quote: "This could be a keeper if I could manage to replace the titlebar buttons backgrounds with the ones for Soft7.msstyles. At the very least I'd like to get rid of the blue glow it has on hover." }-

Oh, you've led a hard life haven't you :D

-{ Quote: "Got it working now" }-

So what was the problem??? ?

[Greg S]

-{ Quote: "Oh, you've led a hard life haven't you :D



So what was the problem??? ?" }-
I'm on Win 7. I needed the latest version. I now have pretty much skinned the buttons to match my msstyle and have them working OK. I'm fixin to boot into XP where PSP8 resides and fine tune the sizes to match the originals to make it near perfect. To do that, I have to merge the Active and Inactive msstyle images into one for 4t. Another possibilty which I'm leaning towards is doing away with the rectangle titlebar buttons background and going with just the glyph images on the titlebar. I'm thinking that will look better