I’ve been working unbelievably hard today on my PC. Even though I have a large monitors I just didn’t seem to have enough desktop space. The problem I had was that I wanted to keep lots of programs running, but having so many programs running meant I had to alt-tab through 15 apps to get to the one I wanted, and scrolling past them made it hard for me to focus.

I decided I needed a tool that would allow me to minimize the windows I didn’t need to see to the system tray, so they could still run, but be out of the way. I wish I’d searched for one while I was at work rather than afterwards, as it only took me 2 minutes to find TrayDevil.

This great little piece of freeware not only allows windows to be minimized to the system tray simply by clicking on a Window at the same time as pressing CTRL, but it also does the following:

• Always On Top: Middle(Wheel)-clicking the Titlebar of any Window while pressing the Selected Key will set that Window Always On Top; One Middle(Wheel)-click resets to Not On Top.
• Disable Buttons: Disable the minimize, maximize and close buttons in each window titlebar by Key+MiddleClicking the button.
• Misc. System Tray: various options including hidingthe System Tray Clock.
• Power Functions: Left, Right or Middle(wheel)-Clicking the TrayDevil icon will Restart, Shutdown or Lock the system and much, much more

To try TrayDevil (ignore the awful site, this app rocks!) click here

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