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Windows Vista: tool for hiding program icons from the task bar wanted
brotherS:
Hi,
I want to have some programs run 24/7, but need to use their taskbar icon only very rarely. So I want to hide it to save some screen space. I once tried a few tools to do the job, but none worked REALLY well. Some just didn't work on Vista, others would do the job now, but wouldn't do it correctly after a reboot.
What tools can you recommend? Freeware/donationware/postcardware/etc. if possible.
Curt:
PS Tray Factory :-* $25
Edited:
- oh, you said task bar. Sorry. PS is for the process / tray area
Edit2:
However, you could "hide to tray"+"always minimize to tray", and then PS will have them
Curt:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/Process_Manager_for_Windows_57295_p/
Ease your control over foreground processes and windows now with new version of Process Manager for Windows . You can perform following operations on any application by just right clicking on them in taskbar.
1. Kill
2. Change their Priority.
3.Always on Top.
4. Minimize to tray
5. Hide
6. Hide others
7. Change Transparency.
If this is not it, right click on PMW icon in tray and
8. You can Hide All Open windows ,
9. Unhide them all in one go,
10. you can even hide the PMW icon from tray.
and the best feature of this tool is
11. You can control which menu's you want and which menu you do not want.
Product homepage: http://processpriority.wiki.sourceforge.net/
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brotherS:
Thanks Curt, the Process Manager makes a good first impression! :up:
brotherS:
Thanks Curt, the Process Manager makes a good first impression! :up:
-brotherS (March 30, 2010, 09:57 AM)
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The second impression is less good... after running for several hours it just vanished from the tray (Windows didn't show an error message), and I find its icon color (in the tray) to be too bright.
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