To keep track of many tray icons you may hide those that you don't need all the time. You can still access such hidden tray icons in the context menu of 12-Tray. It will also restore tray icons after a 'crash' or restart of the taskbar. Usually the taskbar comes up after a crash without any tray icons. You had to stop and restart all related programs to restore the tray icons. Now, 12-Tray will restore tray icons automatically.

No matter if Acrobat Reader, MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, MS Office, Firefox: Each program can be minimized into the system tray . Minimize any wished software with jsut one click to an Icon into the system tray next to the System clock. Great: Programs can be guarded against accidental Quiting and a Boss-Key (to quickly hide unwanted software) is also included. .

SysTrayX is designed to maximize the way you can use your system tray :
- it will help you hide some of the less used icons from the system tray - the hidden icons can still be seen and used in the special SysTrayX menu but will no longer permanently take precious space from your system tray;
- provide recovery for those icons if anything happens to the system tray;
- SysTrayX can also keep the tray icons sorted in a constant order.

Atomic Launch Tray is a program that sits in your system tray and allows you to add links to your favorite programs or websites and access them quickly from the system tray.

PS Tray Factory allows you to: hide low-activity icons from a system tray into menu, hide inactive icons from a system tray into menu (as in Windows XP), get fast access to the hidden icons, change the order of icons in the menu and in the system tray (sort tray), protect tray menu with password, minimize any application to tray, restore icons in system tray area at crash or restarting Explorer.exe.

Tray Pilot allows you to hide the System Tray icons. It might be useful if you have too many icons in your System Tray and there is not much place left for the buttons of your running applications on the taskbar. Just click a small button to the right of the System Tray, - your System Tray will hide and space for the taskbar buttons will be expanded.

Tray Pilot allows you to hide the System Tray icons. It might be useful if you have too many icons in your System Tray and there is not much place left for the buttons of your running applications on the taskbar. Just click a small button to the right of the System Tray, - your System Tray will hide and space for the taskbar buttons will be expanded.

Captain Tray Pro is a simple and effective tool for tray management. You probably have a file manager installed on your computer, which you use to manage your files. Now you can use Captain Tray Pro to manage your Windows.

Desktop Tray Clock - designed as a more informative substitution for a standard tray clock on windows desktop using different skins, over 100 skins are included in the distribution for desktop clock.

Desktop Tray Clock also is a software alarm clock, need a reminder to make a call, go to a meeting or just not to miss a TV program? Is a powerful customizable reminder, which can alarm you at a specific moment of time or run periodically.

Clock Tray Skins is the advanced replacement for standard Windows tray clock. See the time, seconds, day, date and system UpTime in different skins. Displays the time for any of the time zones. Over 130 skins are included in the distribution. Support Longhorn clock style.
It's also an atomic-time synchronizer and Calendar.

STI is an ActiveX control for easily get all system tray icons from your applications. Use STI to get all of the information of the applications running in system tray area, you can also hide a specified icon from systray.

Iconic Tray is a tiny utility which lets you minimize any window either to the system tray (notification area in Windows XP), or to a special new tray provided by Iconic Tray itself (see image). This is very useful to hide seldom used or background applications which occupy your taskbar and hinder quick switching among those you use most often. Minimizing can be carried out with mouse clicks and/or system-wide redefinable hotkeys.

Tray Calendar is:- easy to use notepad calendar software program. - minimizes to the Windows system tray. - system tray icon shows the current day of the month. - notes may be entered for each day. - customize the fonts, color, and the starting day of the week (Sunday or Monday). - click to copy the current date to the Windows Clipboard.

Tray Tools allows you to place up to 24 program icons in the Taskbar Tray. Program icons that you place there can be launched by simply clicking your mouse on them. To add new programs or modify existing items click your mouse on the small red toolbox icon displayed in the tray. You can also modify an existing program icon by right-clicking on it directly from the Taskbar Tray.

Captain Tray Pro is a simple and effective tool for windows management. You probably have a file manger installed on your computer, which you use to manage your files. Now you can use Captain Tray Pro to manage your windows.

Thunderbird-Tray is a system tray launcher tool for Mozilla Thunderbird, the popular e-mail client. You can use TB-Tray to hide Thunderbird to the tray while you don't need it. When you click the tray icon, TB-Tray will restore Thunderbird. It also has a menu of options for quick access to Thunderbird features. Thunderbird-Tray is freeware (open source) and licensed under the GPL.