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The Wonderful Icon alternatives

  • RBTray

  • Allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.

    tags: Portable minimize-to-tray window-manager
  • 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
  • 4t Tray Minimizer

  • 4t Tray Minimizer is a lightweight but powerful window manager, which helps you to free up space on the desktop and the taskbar via the following actions:

    tags: system-tray minimize-to-tray
  • 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
  • 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
  • ShellEnhancer

  • NuonSoft ShellEnhancer is a powerfull utility designed to enhance the default shell of Windows. Learn more about ShellEnhancer.

    tags: Discontinued system-tweaker window-manager
  • 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
  • Desklayer

  • Desklayer is a windows manager that provides to arrange windows on the desktop in various types of layout. Desklayer allows you to move windows across all positions of the layout and arrange the windows size and the layout arrangement dynamically according to the size of the downsized window. Desklayer also re-arrange the layout in consequence of events that involve windows visible on the screen.

    tags: window-manager arrange-windows size-of-window
  • MinimOther

  • Endlessly minimizes all windows except the active one.

    tags: window-manager minimizer
  • MoveInactiveWin

  • Move a window without activating it.

    tags: window-manager
  • WinMover

  • WinMover is an application for moving windows more comfortable with the the mouse in Microsoft Windows®. It is fully customizable and can mimic the behaviour of many window managers for UNIX and Linux. If you for example hold down the Alt-key, you can move or resize a window by pressing and dragging the mouse button anywhere in the window. WinMover can also snap the window to the border of the screen.

    tags: Warning window-manager
  • WinWarden

  • Automatically control how to display a window.

    tags: window-manager
  • ZoneSize

  • Define zones that autosize windows dropped on them.

    tags: window-manager autosize auto-size