eXtra Buttons Alternatives
eXtra Buttons is described as 'lets you add up to 10 additional buttons to the title bar of each window, which allow you to minimize the window to the tray, keep it on-top, send it to the background, adjust the window's transparency and more' and is a Shell Extension in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to eXtra Buttons for Windows, Windows Explorer and PortableApps.com. The best alternative is MenuTools, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like eXtra Buttons are SmartSystemMenu, Actual Window Manager, DM2 and Chameleon Window Manager.
MenuTools is a simple program that adds options for task priority, window transparency, and Always On Top to open dialog windows.
SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:
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Total Windows® Facelift!.
DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons® (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space.
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DiscontinuedLast version is from 2007
Chameleon Window Manager will allow you to control the windows of your programs using customizable buttons added to the title bars of the windows (Always on Top, Minimize to Tray, Minimize to Caption, Specify Transparency, Position window at left/right of screen).
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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!
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DiscontinuedThe official website is no longer available. Last version, 4.6.5.5, released on June 2008, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.
TopMenu is a functionality clone of PowerMenu, but designed to be compatible with Windows 7 and 64-bit systems.
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Moo0 WindowMenuPlus lets you have extra useful menus in every windows "system window menu". Its the menu that you can access through right-clicking on any windows title bar or taskbar button. This tool can add extra menus there such as "Keep on Top"...
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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 On Top, Transparency and Minimize To Tray.
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DiscontinuedThe app is no longer updated, but it can be still downloaded from the official website.
Minime is a tool that allows you to minimize applications to the system tray using a simple hotkey. What makes this tool somewhat unique is that it keeps your system tray clean by minimizing all applications into a single tray icon.
DiscontinuedLast Update: 2013-04-10. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/minime-tool/
