Active Tray is ground-breaking software which finally allows you to transform your meager Windows System Tray into the most important and useful area of your screen! Go ahead; add programs, documents, folders, internet links, and more! Now imagine adding hotkeys, cascading popup menus, and password protection - and it's all right there, at your fingertips! Get your copy of Active Tray today and watch your productivity skyrocket!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-10-27
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 24.95 $

BeTrayed! is a small 32 bit command line utility which allows you to easily add a collection of shortcuts to the System Tray (Notification Area in Microsoft speak) It allows you to quickly access frequently used folders, files, URLs and applications - even though they were never designed to be launched from the Tray.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-11-27
• Size: 491 Kb
• Cost: Free

Launcher is an easy-to-use personal shortcut manager to launch all kinds of files and programs. Drag-and-drop operations are supported; this means that when Launcher is in "Manage Items" mode, it is possible to configure shortcuts by "dragging" files from e.g. Windows Desktop and then "dropping" them into Launcher. One can create an unlimited amount of user defined sub-folders and item (e.g. program) shortcuts. Launcher resides in the sys-tray.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, French
• Release: 2006-06-19
• Size: 850 Kb
• Cost: Free

PS Tray Factory is a system tray icons manager that will allows you to: hide low-activity icons from a system tray into menu, get fast access to hidden icons, change the order of icons in the system tray (sort system tray icons), protect tray menu with password, minimize any application to tray, restore icons in system tray area at crash or restarting Explorer.exe, change original tray icons with your own icons

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, French, German, Russian
• Release: 2006-11-10
• Size: 900 Kb
• Cost: 24.95 $

System tray application launcher Free software from the author of the Hal Spacejock series.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-04-01
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: Free

My Tray Folder is a launcher. Start the program and an icon will appear in your tray displaying the date. Click on it and your folder will appear. Put anything in your tray folder you want. No Bells. No whistles. No dancing bears trying to sell you something that you do not want or need. But, it is an excellent launcher of programs, files, and folders of your choosing. Has plenty of extras.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-07-01
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 4.98 $

Tray Folder is a launcher. Start the program and an icon will appear in your tray displaying the date. Right-click on the tray icon to open your tray folder or to use the program's other features. Store whatever you want in your tray folder. Hide files and folders. Your tray folder is an excellent launcher of programs, files, and folders of your choosing.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-03-01
• Size: 400 Kb
• Cost: 7.98 $

SkimStart is a system tray utility program that helps you to have one-click access to all your favourite files, folders, sites. It helps you to organize your notes and quick start hidden windows utilities. Skimstart supports shortcut copying and drag&drop with windows explorer.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Russian
• Release: 2005-06-03
• Size: 80 Kb
• Cost: 19.95 $

This launcher allows you to run frequently used system commands directly from the tray. It adds a single icon to the system tray which, when clicked, displays a menu to which you can add commands. It can open and close your CD drives, reboot, shutdown your system, run your favorite applications, launch screen savers and set your video mode.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Suomi, Dutch, Catalan, Norwegian
• Release: 2005-11-21
• Size: 843 Kb
• Cost: 19.95 $

PopBar lives in your system tray and it's only job is to hold your favorite programs and internet links and have them available at the click of a button! You can add any file on your system or internet link to PopBar. When your screen becomes cluttered with Windows, icons, etc, and you want to launch one of your favorite files, just look in your system tray for PopBar! Get this program for free as part of the JGOware Software Membership.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-02-14
• Size: 654 Kb
• Cost: 5.00 $

Tray Commander is a multifunctional utility that was developed to let you quickly run your frequently used commands directly from the system tray. Tray Commander adds a single icon to the tray which, when clicked, displays a menu to which you can add commands. It can open\close your CD drives, reboot, shutdown your system, run your favorite applications, launch any screensavers and many others.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Spanish, Italian, Turkey, Catalan
• Release: 2003-05-12
• Size: 253 Kb
• Cost: Free

QuickClick Launcher is an easy to use Application and file Launcher. Applications, files, internet short cuts etc. are added by simple “drag and drop”, into 1 of 8 categories. Launching an Application can be achieved by opening the relevant category and clicking on the Applications Icon or by typing the Applications name into the search function. QuickClick works with Windows user accounts maintaining separate launch lists for each user.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2008-04-07
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 13.95 $

This easy to use application enables quick access to your favorite programs from the system tray. Simply click on the tray icon and select a program to run from the pop-up menu. You can add and delete programs from a file explorer menu or just drag and drop your program file into the list. In addition to program files, you can add documents, folders, videos, images, websites and all other file types into your list.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2002-09-03
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 9.95 $

Flexiblesoft Launcher is a small program that allows you one mouse-click access to a pop-up menu of your favorite shortcuts, minimizing use of valuable desktop space and system resources. By extending mouse functionality, your customized pad of shortcuts appears with the click of a mouse- or a combination that you specify. Click one of the shortcuts on your pad, and your application is launched.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2003-07-07
• Size: 1009 Kb
• Cost: 10.57 $

Desktop Tray Clock - designed as a more informative substitution for a standard tray clock on windows desktop using different skins, over 100 skins are included in the distribution for desktop clock. Desktop Tray Clock also is a software alarm clock, need a reminder to make a call, go to a meeting or just not to miss a TV program? Is a powerful customizable reminder, which can alarm you at a specific moment of time or run periodically.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-08-18
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 24.95 $

ASTC component provides an easy way to enable your VB, VC++, C#, VB.NET, or other COM environment applications to add four powerful functionality to your applications [system tray Control,system tray information Control,subclass technique Control and advanced customizable balloon tooltip Control].

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-01-28
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 29.90 $

JustUrls launches your default browser and automatically inserts the URL you have associated with a button that you click on. JustUrls allows you to add your own buttons to the program. Buttons can be saved as jurl files. You can name the buttons whatever you wish. A handy feature of JustUrls is the Right Click Favorite URL, simply right click on the Go Icon and you are taken there!

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-07-31
• Size: 699 Kb
• Cost: 19.95 $

4t Tray Minimizer lets you running applications minimized as System Tray icons, which helps in adjusting free space on your taskbar. To minimize any application to the task bar, simply left click the minimize button as usual or press keyboard shortcut. You can configure 4t Tray Minimizer to automatically hide/restore specific applications by pressing specific keyboard shortcuts.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-12-02
• Size: 802 Kb
• Cost: Free

With Free Launcher you may easily start your programs by a click or using an alias. You may add as many aliases as you like. Free Launcher is located in the tray and won't interfere your usual activity. The software has "Load at startup" and "Autohide" options that should make your life even more easier. Free Launcher is a free software and it does not contain any bad-ware.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-10-30
• Size: 498 Kb
• Cost: Free

Clock Tray Skins is the advanced replacement for standard Windows tray clock. See the time, seconds, day, date and system UpTime in different skins. Displays the time for any of the time zones. Over 100 skins are included in the distribution. Support Longhorn clock style. It's also an atomic-time synchronizer and Calendar.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-11-02
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $