PowerMenu: Minimize Any Application to System Tray in Windows
Do you love a clutter-free Taskbar and want to minimize all your opened application to System Tray instead of Taskbar? By default Windows doesn’t provide this facility but here we’ll tell you about a free, small and excellent utility which can provide this facility.
“PowerMenu” is a free utility which provides this essential feature which Microsoft has not implemented in Windows yet. It adds following 4 extra options in Windows control menu (the menu which appears when you right-click on windows titlebar or its taskbar button):
- Priority
- Transparency
- Always On Top
- Minimize To Tray
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You can change window priority which is a feature which Windows Task Manager also provides. Its a critical option and you should not change it unless required.
You can change window transparency:
You can set a window to stay always on top.
And at last which is the main and most important feature of this utility, you can minimize any application to System tray:
As you can see, we have minimized Explorer window to System tray using this utility and we can restore it back any time by double-clicking on its icon in system tray.
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So its a must have utility for Windows users and the best part is its free.
this won’t work!!! it ONLY works during the windows session it was installed on!!! but if I restart the computer, it no longer works and ALWAYS errors out on “unable to write file” if I attempt a reinstall!!! can someone help??? I am using Windows 7!!!
^^ Did you use the installer version or portable version?
in fact I cannot even download the portable version, the link is broken!!! it leads to the installer version!!!
^^ It seems the developer has removed the portable version.
what about my issue with it not working upon restart… also powermenuhook.dll gets removed from my computer when I restart too!! but it WON’T work even if PowermenuHook.dll is STILL there!!!
^^ No idea. Try to run the installer as Administrator by using “Run as Administrator” option from context menu.
Already tried that!!! I also tried running the program itsself as administrator!!!! each both failed!!!
^^ I can only suggest that first uninstall the program completely using following steps:
https://www.askvg.com/how-to-completely-uninstall-remove-a-software-program-in-windows-without-using-3rd-party-software/
And then reinstall it.
Unfortunelly it DOES NOT WORK on Windows 10!