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  • Dexpot

  • Dexpot turns your monitor into up to 20. It creates and manages virtual desktops and enables you to work far more efficiently and comfortably with many simultaneously opened windows on Windows 95/98/ME and NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista (incl. x64).

    tags: Discontinued minimize-to-tray multiple-desktops virtual-desktop
  • DM2

  • DM2 provides several Windows enhancements that may help in every-day work. One of the nicest and most popular features of DM2 is minimizing windows to floating icons® (unique feature!) freeing both task bar and tray bar space. Moreover, DM2 can manipulate windows in various ways: minimize to tray, make them standing always on-top over all other windows, roll to caption, resize, align to screen borders, hide, set the opacity etc. DM2 also helps with Open/Save dialog boxes, by providing user-defined menu with favorites and recent files and folders. Plenty of programs settings options will satisfy most of requirements. »

    tags: Discontinued Portable enhancing floating-icons hide-window
  • Nimi Visuals

  • Adds eye-candy effects to windows (and start menu) like deformations (e.g: jelly windows - that makes moved window wiggle like being made from jelly; or fold - which hides windows by folding up horizontally, and unfolds when showing), physics (e.g.: keep momentum - making window to conserve move momentum; or bounce - that makes windows bounce upon receving focus ) and other SFX (e.g.: pixie dust - which makes moved window to leave a trail of twinkling pixie dust; or close puff - which displays puff cloud below cursor when closing window). »

    tags: Portable customization desktop-enhancement
  • SmartSystemMenu

  • SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. It appends next custom items to menu:

    tags: system-tweaker
  • The Wonderful Icon

  • The Wonderful Icon is a small Windows utility that resides in your PC's taskbar tray. With it, you can:

    tags: hotkeys taskbar system-tray minimize-to-tray
  • PowerMenu

  • PowerMenu is a small application that some extra menu items to the windows control menu in addition to the standard "Close", "Maximize", etc options. The extra menus are: Priority, Always On Top, Transparency and Minimize To Tray.

    tags: Discontinued desktop-enhancement transparency minimize-to-tray window-on-top
  • KDE Mover-Sizer

  • KDE Mover-Sizer is a lightweight program enabling KDE-style alt-click moving and resizing for Windows XP, 7, 2000, 2003, Windows Server, and Vista.

    tags: kde-style lightweight move-windows multiple-monitor-support resize-windows
  • NiftyWindows

  • Welcome to NiftyWindows! This free tool provides many helpful features for an easier handling of your Windows (c) operating system. It does not need any complex installation nor does it read or save any information on your system other than the application dependent files itself. The release package includes only the main executable and some additional text files. Redistribution of NiftyWindows and linking to the website are welcome and strongly encouraged. In other words, feel free to share this tool with the public, provided that the enclosed license is met. »

    tags: grid snap
  • Clicky Gone

  • Clicky Gone allows you to hide your selected windows from view, this includes the taskbar button associated with the application. This utility particularly helps with protecting your privacy by hiding things like your browser with banking details up and someone walks in on you.

    tags: Portable minimize-to-tray system-tray window-manager
  • xNeat Windows Manager

  • xNeat is a windows enhancement utility. With the free version you can change any windows transparency, hide it, make it always on top, send it to tray, change the process/thread priority, Shuffle the taskbar etc.

    tags: transparency window-on-top send-to-tray
  • Pitaschio

  • Pitaschio is a freeware which makes it convenient to use Microsoft Windows. Pitaschio includes a large number of useful functions mainly related to mouse operation and window management. This is a essential tool to use windows efficiently.

    tags: Discontinued Portable minimize-to-tray window-snapping
  • FreeSnap

  • Ever try to size a window so it just touches the edge of the screen? It’s tedious (at least for me). FreeSnap allows you to instantly resize any window edge to the corresponding screen edge. Want that window to touch the right edge of the screen? Press and hold the left “Windows Key” (see illustration below) and press the right arrow. It’s just that simple. The number-pad keys work as well, regardless of the NumLock state.

    tags: window-manager
  • TopMenu

  • TopMenu is a functionality clone of PowerMenu, but designed to be compatible with Windows 7 and 64-bit systems.

    tags: Portable transparency minimize-to-tray window-on-top
  • PS Tray Factory

  • PS Tray Factory allows you to take a full control over icons in the system tray area of the taskbar. With PS Tray Factory you can: hide icons from system tray into menu, change the order of icons in the system tray (sort tray), restore tray icons after Explorer.exe crash and use custom icons.

    tags: icons system-tray minimize change-order