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Minimize any window of any program into an icon in the system
tray - hide a window and free some space on the taskbar.
A lot of programs (such as Microsoft Outlook Express, Windows Media Player and
others) have no built-in feature of minimizing them into the tray. These
programs must be running all the time while you are working with the computer,
but you use them only occasionally. Other programs may wait a long time
until you get back to working with them, etc. All those programs occupy
space on the taskbar and make it difficult to navigate between windows.
Usually, users want to hide such programs, but if their authors did not
implement the option for minimizing them into the tray, all you can do is make
the height of the taskbar larger (making the useful space on the screen
smaller) and watch the buttons of the running programs (and their titles)
getting smaller on the taskbar. TweakWindow will help you solve this problem!
Now, even if a program does not have the option for minimizing it into the tray,
you can hide it from the taskbar into an icon in the systems tray
with a click or a hotkey. The tray icon of a program occupies much less space
than its taskbar button and you get additional space for other programs.
Additionally, if a program is minimized into the tray, it is not displayed in
the ALT+TAB dialog and you can use fewer keystrokes to switch between windows.
To display a window minimized into the tray, just click on its icon. You can
specify the number of clicks you find comfortable for displaying a window - one
click or a double click. Since TweakWindow displays the original icons of the
programs minimized into the tray and tooltips with the titles of those windows,
it is easy for you to operate the icons of the windows minimized into the
tray. Just install TweakWindow to get these advantages.
For example, Minimize
Microsoft Outlook Express into an icon in the system tray
If you want to hide a window so no-one can see it while you are away
from the computer, use the "Hide
Window" feature.
If you want to quickly minimize a window into the system tray, use the
Quickly minimize / hide into the tray without using the keyboard or moving
the mouse feature.
TweakWindow provides you with four ways to minimize a window into the system
tray - the "MinToTray" button on its title bar, the "MinToTray
" command from its system menu, hotkeys or the Quickly minimize / hide into the
tray without using the keyboard or moving the mouse
feature. You can assign the key combination you find comfortable as the
"MinToTray" hotkey.
TweakWindow has the "Restore all" command that restores all modified windows
(transparent, topmost, ghost, minimized into the tray, hidden, changed icon and
title, etc.) to their original state. Additionally, all windows will be
restored once you exit TweakWindow.
TweakWindow supports the following operating systems:
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Windows 2000
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Windows XP
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Windows 2003
Try TweakWindow FREE: setup-tw-15.exe
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With TweakWindow, you get additional useful features that other software
developers do not provide you with. By purchasing TweakWindow, you improve the
work of ALL your other software.
Learn more about other features:
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Transparent window.
Through a transparent window, you can see the contents of the window that is
below the one you are currently working with. With the "Transparent window"
feature, you will save a lot of time you would otherwise spend on switching
between windows.
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Window always on top.
You can make a window stay always on top and this window will be displayed
above all other windows, when you are working with them. This will allow you to
see the results in the work of a program even if you are currently working with
another application that occupies the entire screen. If you want it, the window
can be made transparent whenever you make it topmost.
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Rollup window.
Do you want to see a window on the screen so that it occupies as little space
as possible? Use the Rollup window feature for minimizing the size of the
window to the size of its title bar.
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Ghost window.
If you want to see the window on top, but it is large in size and you have to
work with a window below it - make it a Ghost! A Ghost window stays on top of
other windows, can be transparent and let mouse clicks THROUGH to a window
below!
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Minimizing a
window into the system tray. A lot of programs (such as
Microsoft Outlook Express, Windows Media Player and others) have no built-in
feature for minimizing into the tray. These programs must be running all the
time while you are working with the computer, but you use them only
occasionally. Other programs may be used only infrequently, etc. All those
programs occupy space on the taskbar and make it difficult to navigate between
windows. For example -
Minimize Microsoft Outlook Express into an icon in the system tray.
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Hide window.
Are you afraid to start some programs because someone may see you using them?
Do you close programs and documents when you leave the computer because someone
may see your confidential information or steal your ideas? Now you don't have
to close all windows, when you leave the room - just hide them. Now you don't
have to close a game or your browser when someone comes up to you - just hide
them.
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Chameleon feature.
Do you avoid using the Autohide feature of the taskbar and all active programs
are visible on your taskbar (that is, their icons and titles)? Do your
colleagues look over your shoulder and tell your boss every time they see you
surfing the Internet or playing games? Does your network administrator use some
spyware to detect if there is any forbidden software running? With TweakWindow,
you can change the title and the icon of any window.
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Quickly minimizing into
the tray / hiding a window without using the keyboard or moving the mouse.
Do you need to quickly hide the window when somebody is coming up to your
display? TweakWindow helps you solve these problems.
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Moving a window by clicking and
holding not its title bar, but any place on the window.
Do you need to move a window when the pointer is far from its title bar? Do you
have to get the pointer back to its previous position after you move a window?
Are you disappointed at the fact that Microsoft has not implemented such a
feature? Your problems are solved with TweakWindow!
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Enhancing the "Move
pointer to the default button in dialog boxes" system
feature. Do you make use the useful "Move pointer to the default button in
dialog boxes" system feature, but find it does not work in many of your
applications? You do not know how to solve this problem, do you? We do! Use
TweakWindow.
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