Min2Tray

Current version is Min2Tray v1.7.7 (2008-02-13).

What Min2Tray can do for you

Min2Tray - a utility for MS Windows^TM NT and higher to minimize and hide a window to system tray area of taskbar as icon.
Created by Junyx in June 2005. Contact me via the AutoHotkey forum hosting the Min2Tray thread.

Does have even more nifty bits like:

localization: English, German and French
utilizes the third (middle) mouse button if present
user may define hotkeys for almost everything
BossKey: hide all visible windows (exceptions possible) with one keypress
StartupMinimize: auto-hide certain windows upon startup of Min2Tray
TriggerActions: do fancy stuff when windows are un-/hidden or opened like:
- position window
- maximize window (any direction supported)
- make window always-on-top
- send keystrokes to minimized window and controls
- run arbitrary programs or scripts
- manipulate master volume (mute/unmute/toggle)
- play a soundfile
- and more...
StealthMode: Min2Tray does not show any tray icons
show a hidden window automatically when its title changed (regular expressions supported)
UserMenu: add custom menu entries to tray icon of minimized window:
- comes in handy to quickly launch specific actions of the underlying program
- i.e. open "New Mail" window of MS Outlook^TM 2003 without the need to restore the minimized window first
- example registry file is included (for your inspiration)
hotkeys to maximize a window only vertically or horizontally
and even more stuff: always-on-top, no button mode, nice GUI

Just give it a try. It won't hurt. But please make sure to read the Readme.txt and Changelog.txt included in the archive for latest information. Full source code is included (ahk, AutoHotkey scripting language).

Get it now

You can download Min2Tray as 7-zip archive and enjoy the show at once (no installation required). You will need the 7-Zip archiver to unpack the archive. By the way: this is a very good and open source packer!

Alternatively you can download Min2Tray as zip archive or - if you trust me (d'oh!) - as self extracting archive (exe file).

Min2Tray v1.7.7

Date

2008-02-13

Download

min2tray_install.7z

min2tray_install.zip

min2tray_install.exe

Changelog

+ custom hotkey to display preferences window of starter.
  defaults to CTRL+WIN+ALT+P [thx alex howard]
+ option to globally disable minimizing to taskbar of any window
  prior to hiding it (skips the annoying "zapping" or "fading" effect).
  USE WITH CAUTION, some windows don't like it!
  one should rather disable taskbar "zapping" on a per window basis
  via tray menu (preferences) of that particular window.
  or even better: turn off all those flashy but useless effects in
  MS Windows' display properties dialog for all applications!
. Min2Tray.exe compiled with AutoHotkey.exe v1.0.47.05

Contact

User reply is highly appreciated! The preferred way to get in contact with me is the AutoHotkey forum hosting the Min2Tray thread.

If you have the opportunity to test Min2Tray on a machine with MS Windows 7^TM, please drop me a line in the AutoHotkey forum.

You may also leave a greeting/appreciation on the greeting page if you like Min2Tray.

History of Min2Tray

Have a look at all releases so far.

On the edge

If you wanna see your brain or computer (or both) crumble like a cookie have a look at the beta section.