One Tip A Day » System Tray http://www.onetipaday.com What Will You Learn Today? Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:07:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Brilliant Freeware Apps To Keep Your Desktop Fresh & Tidyhttp://www.onetipaday.com/2007/02/10/brilliant-freeware-apps-to-keep-your-desktop-fresh-tidy/ http://www.onetipaday.com/2007/02/10/brilliant-freeware-apps-to-keep-your-desktop-fresh-tidy/#comments Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:17:24 +0000 Tony Williams http://www.onetipaday.com/2007/02/10/brilliant-freeware-apps-to-keep-your-desktop-fresh-tidy/
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    • ]]>     Sometimes even when you have multiple monitors it seems like there just isn’t enough space on your desktop. Windows XP likes to encourage multi-tasking but if you have a big PC session you can end up with multiple windows open that can make navigating around your desktop very hard.

    I used to struggle, until I started some of the cool Freeware programs listed below to keep my desktop nice and tidy and fresh.

    Deskloops 2.0

    Deskloops

    Deskloops is Windows XP’s answer to Vista’s Flip 3D function. In fact, I think it does a better job than Flip 3D. This brilliant freeware application adds all of your windows to a drop-down Strip which shows all of your windows as thumbnails. Windows within the stip can be scrolled a-la Vista Flip 3D, and once you find the window you want to use just stop and the window will open.

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    Tray Devil

    TrayDevil

    I discovered TrayDevil in December. TrayDevil allows windows to be minimized to the system tray simply by clicking on a Window at the same time as pressing CTRL, as well as the following very quickly on a window by window basis:

    • Set Windows To Be Always On Top
    • Disable The Minimize, Maximise and Close Buttons
    • Adds Additional System Tray Options
    • Control Restart, Shutdown or Lock Functions from the system tray

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    • ]]>     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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