Tray It is a software used to manage
your Windows task bar and system tray. It provides you to minimize your
programs to system tray. You can either minimize your program to taskbar or
system tray or to both
TrayIt is only about a 300k download and only about
600k installed. There’s no installer, you just download the zip and extract the
contents to wherever you want to “install” it.When you first launch TrayIt!,
you’ll see a list of all the programs that are on your task bar.
There are a few ways minimize programs that are on
the taskbar into the system tray. If you only want to minimize a program to the
system tray, the quickest and easiest way to do that is to just hold the Shift
key while you click the minimize button. To restore the window, you can just
double-click the tray icon.
There are two ways to put a program into the system
tray without minimizing it at the same time. You can either right-click
on the minimize button in on program window you want to put in the tray and
select Place in System Tray, or you can select the program in the
TrayIt! program list and click the Place in System Tray button.
When you place an app into the system tray in this
manner, you will see it both in the taskbar as well as the system tray.
TrayIt! creates a profile for the application. You can edit the profile to
change the way the application will interact with the taskbar and system
tray. To edit the profile, select the application in the TrayIt! list and
click the Edit Current Profile button.
You’ll see that you can perform many customizations
for the application. A few of note:
o
Basic tab > Startup section
> Minimize window on creation / when TrayIt! is started
o
More tab > Application section
> Hide application from the taskbar all the time, keep tray icon
only
o
Advanced tab > Startup section
> Do not create Tray Icon ““ minimize and hide window completely
These options allow you to control
the way the applicaiton interacts with the taskbar and system tray when it is
launched. If you have programs that just sit in the background and don’t
require any interaction, you will probably want to take advantage of some of
these options.
TrayIt! also has some application options you might
want to take a look at as well. To change the TrayIt! options, you can
click the Modify Application Options in the TrayIt! window.
Two options I like in particular are creating a tray icon for TrayIt! and using
single-clicks for the tray icons.
Another important thing to mention is that when you
close TrayIt! with the X in the upper right corner (like you
would any other application), it still keeps running in the background. If you
don’t have the task tray enabled for it, you can still get back to TrayIt! by
right-clicking on the minimize button for any program you are running, and
click on TrayIt! Application ….
To actually exit TrayIt!, you’ll have to click on File > Exit or
click on File > Uninstall. What’s the
difference? Exit closes TrayIt! but it maintains your settings in the Windows registry. The
Uninstall option will exit TrayIt! and also remove all the options from the
Windows registry. This is a useful feature if you are using TrayIt! as a
portable application and you don’t want to keep the settings in the registry.
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