TrayIt! Alternatives

TrayIt! is described as '- minimize to the system icon tray any program (Outlook Express, Notepad, Word, Internet Explorer, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Opera, OpenOffice etc.) and get more room in the Taskbar!' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to TrayIt! for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, PortableApps.com, File Explorer and Thunderbird apps. The best TrayIt! alternative is SmartSystemMenu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TrayIt! are gohide, RBTray, KDocker and SmartContextMenu.

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  1. gohide icon
     2 likes

    Boss key for Windows 11 and 10: one hotkey hides the apps you choose - window, taskbar button and tray icon together - and one hotkey brings them back exactly where they were.

    15 gohide alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. RBTray icon
     33 likes

    Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.

    45 RBTray alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  3. KDocker icon
     5 likes

    KDocker will help you dock any application into the system tray. This means you can dock Openoffice, xmms, Firefox, Thunderbird, anything!

    Just point and click. Works for all NET WM compliant window managers - that includes KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Fluxbox and many more.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. SmartContextMenu adds a context menu to all windows in the system. This program is enhanced version of SmartSystemMenu. I hope it will be more convenient, because it supports all types of windows, including windows without a system menu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. RBTray Fork icon
     10 likes

    RBTray by Benbuck, fork of RBTray , is a small Windows program that runs in the background and allows almost any window to be minimized to the system tray by:

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. 4t Tray Minimizer is a lightweight but powerful window manager, which helps you to free up space on the desktop and the taskbar via the following actions:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. eXtra Buttons icon
     19 likes

    eXtra Buttons lets you add up to 10 additional buttons to the title bar of each window, which allow you to minimize the window to the tray, keep it on-top, send it to the background, adjust the window's transparency and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
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  8. DM2 icon
     26 likes

    DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons® (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  9. TransOther icon
     2 likes

    Make all windows but the active one transparent.

    Features:

    • User defined transparency level.
    • Can ignore always ontop windows.
    • Won't make parent windows transparent while children is active.
    40 TransOther alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Ghoster icon
     7 likes

    Dims all windows except the active one.

    Features:

    • Place a transparent image across the screen.
    • Highly configurable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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