Min2Tray Alternatives
Min2Tray is described as '- a utility for MS WindowsTM NT and higher to minimize and hide a window to system tray area of taskbar as icon' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to Min2Tray for Windows and PortableApps.com. The best alternative is Actual Window Manager. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try RBTray or 4t Tray Minimizer. Other great apps like Min2Tray are DM2, TrayIt!, HideWin and Minimize To Tray Tool.
Total Windows® Facelift!.
Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.
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DiscontinuedLast update is from 2015 but the project has been forked: https://github.com/benbuck/rbtray
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:
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
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.
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 and still works.
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DiscontinuedThe official website is no longer available. Last version, 1.0, released on June 13th, 2008, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.
MinimizeToTrayTool is a utility that allows the user to minimize any application to the Windows system tray with its icon.
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 the system tray.
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Discontinuedreleased 19-Jan-2003