When you are working inside of Windows, with a lot of open windows, your life is a little more complicated. Trying to keep track of what you have open, what you want avaliable and what could be hidden for now is not an easy thing to manage inside of Windows by default. With the TrayDevil though, you job gets a whole lot easier.

Now the main reason I started to use TrayDevil was I wanted to minimize a few programs down to the system tray that I need to have open, but I do not need to have wasting valuable space on the task bar with. TrayDevil takes care of that job with no complaints. All you need to do to minimize things to the tray is to hit the Ctrl key and click on the title bar for the window in question. After that, it is sent down to the system tray.

This program does not stop there though. It can also hide the tray clock, disable a window’s minimize, maximize and close buttons, set windows to stay on top, shutdown, restart, and more. Another feature that I really like is that TrayDevil can also automatically run a program before it shuts down your system, triggered by a CPU-usage threshold. So if you need to run a backup program before you shut down, it can be setup for you right there.

Freeware programs I really get excited about are few and far between. If you need a tiny program that does a lot of work, I would highly recomend TrayDevil.

[tags]freeware, Windows, TrayDevil, minimize, system tray[/tags]