gHacks technology news » autoit http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:43:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Minimize Windows To A Single System Tray Icon http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/25/minimize-windows-to-a-single-system-tray-icon/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/25/minimize-windows-to-a-single-system-tray-icon/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:49:28 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8521 Minime (via Lifehacker) is an AutoIt application that can be used to put any open window – be it program or folder – into the Windows System Tray. While that is not really something new it comes with a feature that might be interesting to users who run many applications and folders.

Minime bundles the minimized windows into one System Tray icon. If you are the type of user who usually has dozens of icons in the Windows System Tray then you might want to consider switching from your favorite Tray Minimizer application to Minime.

While running Minime in the background users can make use of the keyboard shortcut [CTRL Shift Z] to minimize the active window to the System Tray. Windows can be reactivated by either choosing a single window or by selecting the Show All option.

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Users are reporting problems with 64-bit editions of Windows Vista. Other editions and Windows operating systems should run fine. Minime uses about 6 Megabytes of computer memory when running in the background.

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The documentation gives a thorough introduction to AutoIt and explains most features including some tutorials to get you started. This might be not that easy for someone who never coded before but everyone else should feel right at home with this basic like language.

The forum is the place to learn more and ask questions about the tool. It has a whole subforum where users submit their autoscripts and everyone is able to use them on his own computer. This means that even though you do not code tasks on your own you can still use many by simply downloading the from the forums.

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