How to Minimize An Application to System Tray in Windows?

[Posted in Portable Apps, Software Zone, Windows Vista, Windows XP]

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 I’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

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, I have minimized Explorer window to System tray using this utility and I can restore it back any time by double-clicking on its icon in system tray.

So its a must have utility for Windows users and the best part is its free. But you can donate the developer for his hard work.

Download PowerMenu Installer

Download PowerMenu Portable Version

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12 Replies:

Jeet Chowdhury said:

I figure out how to change minimize button on your theme.

using resource hacker.

but don’t know how to make theme. and u also not post a topic on it.
TUSH@R!!! said:

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I Daily Read ur Blog
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& Which Abtivirus Is best With Public Rating
Pls Send Solution
Wating For Ur Reply
VG said:

^^ If you want to purchase, then NOD32 and Kaspersky are the best. If you want free, then go for AVG, avast! or Avira.
goldi said:

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Osku Kaskisola said:

you should clean your hd :DDD:D
Riza said:

I use Actual Window Manager. It’s really fantastic program.
But not free. Trial is for 60 days.
Sapan Thakkar said:

Hi Vishal,

You are just awesome… All the content here is great and many a times I get to know many new tricks…

Now I have a problem or rather I am curious to know about it. I have tried “googling” and even did some here and there in windows but I am unable to know the cause of it.

The thing is I just want to know how to change the sorting order of the search list in google search box. ie. in my pc at home the history of the search box is displayed in an alphabetical order while at office it is displayed datewise in ascending order ie. the last search I made is at the last in the list…

I can’t get any such settings in the Google preferences and I am quite sure that it is something in Windows but I am unable to get that setting…

Hope u’ll help..

Thanks…
VG said:

^^ Are you talking about web browser search box history? If yes, are you using same browser at both places?
Sapan Thakkar said:

Yes, I am using FireFox 3.0 at both the places.
As per me, I have checked every setting in the browser but no success. And now I feel that the sorting order is dependent on windows settings. I have even checked the about:config file and searched for sorting there but of no use.

Even Googling doesn’t help… No such queries…

btw, what if i use different browsers bcoz i don’t think that the browser has any such setting.
VG said:

^^ If you can post screenshots of both browsers, it’ll really help in understanding your problem.
Sagriz said:

Hi!!
I m using its Portable version….the problem is that it is not showing its menu captions in windows media player 11…i want to minimize it in the system tray instead of taskbar….
Sagriz said:

OH!! Problem solved …i just intalled its full version….PERFECT!!