Minimize Apps to the System Tray with Trayconizer

Trayconizer can minimize virtually any application to the system tray rather than having it take up valuable space on the taskbar. There is also an option for starting an application initially in the minimized state. Additionally, multiple Trayconized applications are handled by a single instance of Trayconizer to avoid wasting system resources. Trayconizer will automatically shut itself down when you close the application you are Trayconizing. There are no DLL's required beyond the base Win32 API libraries and will not store any entries in your registry.

An earlier post introduced a cool Adobe AIR application - Antenna. The application does not have the option to be minimized to the tray. Using Trayconizer, it's easy to do this.

Locate the shortcut(s) for your application, in this case Antenna and right click to get the context menu. Select Properties.

In the Properties dialog, click the Shortcut tab.

In the Target field, insert the target path for Trayconizer in front of the target path of the application making certain to leave a single space in between the final quote mark of the Trayconizer target path and the beginning quote mark of the application's target path.

The Target field should change from

"C:\Program Files\Antenna\Antenna\Antenna.exe"

to

"C:\Documents and Settings\Eric P Pereira\My Documents\My Downloads\Software\Trayconizer\Trayconizer.exe" "C:\Program Files\Antenna\Antenna\Antenna.exe"

Note: Trayconizer changes the shrotcut icon to it's own icon.

Note: Replace the paths of Trayconizer and application as per your PC's paths.

That's it. You're done.

Download Trayconizer here.

Note: Read more about Antenna here.

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