Process Manager for Windows Alternatives and Similar Applications

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Process Hacker

Open Source |
Windows

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Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer. A free and open source process viewer with powerful process termination and memory searching/editing...

OS & Utilities portable, memory, process, process-management, hack
+2 more hacker, process-viewer
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PowerMenu

Free by Abstract Path |
Windows

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PowerMenu is a small application that some extra menu items to the windows control menu in addition to the standard "Close", "Maximize", etc options. The extra menus are: Priority, Always...

menu, transparency, minimize-to-tray, always-on-top
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Prio - Process Priority Saver

Free* by O&K |
Windows

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Prio is a utility for saving the priority of applications and interface enhancements for the standard windows task Manager.

OS & Utilities task-manager, process-list
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TrayIt!

Free by Computer Technology, Inc. |
Windows

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TrayIt! - minimize to the system icon tray any program (Outlook Express, Notepad, Word, Internet Explorer, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Opera, OpenOffice etc.) and get more room in the Taskbar!

applications, system-tray, transparency
+3 more minimize-to-tray, always-on-top, minimize
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4t Tray Minimizer

Free* by 4t Niagara Software |
Windows

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4t Tray Minimizer is a lightweight but powerful window manager, which helps you to free up space on the desktop and the taskbar via the following actions: Minimize To Tray - any application can be...

system-tray, minimize-to-tray, minimize
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AllTray

Free* by Michael B. Trausch |
Linux

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AllTray is a program you can use on Unix-like systems such as GNU/Linux or FreeBSD running the X Window System to dock any application which doesn’t have a native tray icon into the system tray/notification...

system-tray, minimize-to-tray, traicon
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PS Tray Factory

Commercial by pssoftlab.com |
Windows

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PS Tray Factory allows you to take a full control over icons in the system tray area of the taskbar. With PS Tray Factory you can: hide icons from system tray into menu, change the order of icons in the system...

icons, menu, system-tray, hide, hidden, minimize
+1 more change-order
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RBTray

Open Source |
Windows

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Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.

windows-management
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HideWin

Free |
Windows

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HideWin sits in the system tray and enables you to hide any top-level window with its popup tray menu or an ALT+letter hotkey that it assigns automatically. It appears to be abandonware, but it is only 13KB...

OS & Utilities portable, window-management, desktop-enhancement
+5 more minimize-to-tray, minimize, minimizer, hide-window, hide-all-windows
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ShellEnhancer

Free by NuonSoft |
Windows

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NuonSoft ShellEnhancer is a powerfull utility designed to enhance the default shell of Windows. Learn more about ShellEnhancer.

windows-management, windows-tweaker
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TopMenu

Open Source by Aperture Logic |
Windows

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TopMenu is a functionality clone of PowerMenu, but designed to be compatible with Windows 7 and 64-bit systems.

portable, transparency, minimize-to-tray
+1 more always-on-top
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Clicky Gone

Open Source |
Windows

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Clicky Gone allows you to hide your selected windows from view, this includes the taskbar button associated with the application. This utility particularly helps with protecting your privacy by hiding things...

portable Portable version available, system-tray, windows-management
+1 more minimize-to-tray
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Trayconizer

Free |
Windows

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Trayconizer allows you to minimize virtually any application to the system tray rather than having it take up valuable space in your taskbar. The screen shot to the left shows Trayconizer minimizing Notepad to...

portable Standalone executable , system-tray, minimize-to-tray