gHacks technology news » minimize to system tray http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:36:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Window Always On Top With Power Menuhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/12/window-always-on-top-with-power-menu/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/12/window-always-on-top-with-power-menu/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:06:47 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6952 Several basic options when working with windows in a Microsoft operating system are missing. There is no way to make a window always on top, no way to minimize a window to the system tray (unless support by the application) and no way to set the transparency level of an open window in Windows. The latter has been introduced in Windows Vista but previous releases of Windows do not support that feature at all.

It is however almost certain that software developers have created an application with the exact functionality needed. In this case Power Menu was developed which is a lightweight software program that adds the option to minimize a window, to make a windows always on top and to set the transparency level of each window individually.

Power Menu adds the three options to the right-click menu when clicking window titles. This is working when the window is visible on the screen but also when it is minimized in the task bar.

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Power Menu can be run on all 32-bit editions of Windows from Windows 9x to Windows Vista.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/12/window-always-on-top-with-power-menu/feed/ 7 Use Winroll for more space on your desktophttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/14/use-winroll-for-more-space-on-your-desktop/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/14/use-winroll-for-more-space-on-your-desktop/#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:25:47 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/14/use-winroll-for-more-space-on-your-desktop/ I love tiny free softwares that have been developed by passionate authors. Winroll is one of those applications that is useful and so small in size that it is astonishing how the functionality has been squeezed into the software. The binary has a size of 24 kilobytes. and does the following. Whenever you right-click a title bar of any window it “rolls up” so to speak and only the title bar is visible. Take a look at the screenshots below to get a better impression of how it looks like.

winroll screenshot 1winroll screenshot 2

It is possible to minimize or maximize all open windows at once and place windows in the system tray. I was not able to find out all of the functions because of a missing help file. If you right-click and hold shift while clicking on minimize you put the window into the system tray instead of the task bar for instance. If you have more information please let me know.

The about information states that you have to move the mouse over the titlebar, the maximize, minimize and close functions to get help but this is not working for me. Maybe because I disabled something in Windows, who knows ?

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