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  • RBTray

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

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    • Discontinued Last update was made on 2011-Oct-30

  • 4t Tray Minimizer

    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: ...

    Freemium Windows

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  • eXtra Buttons

    eXtra Buttons 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...

    Free Windows Windows Explorer

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    • Discontinued Social networks not updated in years.

  • Ghoster

    Dims all windows except the active one. Features: - Place a transparent image across the screen. - Highly configurable.

    Free Windows

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  • DM2

    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...

    Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

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    • Discontinued Last version is from 2007

  • Min2Tray

    Min2Tray - a utility for MS WindowsTM NT and higher to minimize and hide a window to system tray area of taskbar as icon.

    Free Open Source Windows

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  • WinWarden

    Automatically control how to display a window. Features: - Move, maximize, minimize, restore, enable, disable, hide, show, ontop, bottom, alwaysontop, clip...

    Free Windows

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  • ZoneSize

    Define zones that autosize windows dropped on them. Features: - Hold a window over a zone for .5 sec to autosize it. - Doubleclick the tray icon to center the...

    Free Windows

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  • PowerMenu

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

    Free Windows Windows Explorer

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    • Discontinued The app is no longer updated, but it can be still downloaded from the official website.

  • Glass2k

    Small little program that allows Windows 2000/XP users to make any window transparent. Right-click on any window or press the keyboard shortcuts (Control + Shift +...

    Free Windows

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  • Minime

    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...

    Free Windows

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    • Discontinued Last Update: 2013-04-10. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/minime-tool/

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