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:

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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:

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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.

Download PowerMenu

Published in: Software, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.

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  1. 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!!!

  2. in fact I cannot even download the portable version, the link is broken!!! it leads to the installer version!!!

  3. 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!!!

  4. ^^ No idea. Try to run the installer as Administrator by using “Run as Administrator” option from context menu.

  5. Already tried that!!! I also tried running the program itsself as administrator!!!! each both failed!!!

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