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
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.
So its a must have utility for Windows users and the best part is its free.
Download PowerMenu Portable Version
This article was posted by VG in following section: Software, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
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Sagriz
OH!! Problem solved ...i just intalled its full version....PERFECT!!
Ronak
thnks bro! i was searchin for this only..... i wanted to minimize the windows player in the system trta.and using this software my problem hv solved..thnks
hex
Very useful software. Thanks!
MAGNUMHEART
does this work in windows 7? ^^
VG
^^ Not tested but it should work.
Akshay
Any software for Windows 7 which can do the similar task?
VG
^^ It should work in Windows 7 as well.
Ismail
Hi,
I downloaded power menu and installed and also restarted the system. But I'm unable to see minimize to tray option on right click on task bar window as you have shown in the screenshot.
Please help.
Ismail
Ismail
I'm using Windows 7
VG
^^ Its working fine here in Windows 7.