System Tray Software

PayPal Monitor

This internet software hides down in your System Tray and polls PayPal for new transactions in your account. When it sees a new transaction, you get an instant alert to that transaction. Restore PayPal Monitor to your desktop and get a running total of all the transactions in your summary view.

ClipExact

This software runs in the background while you are working. Whenever you copy text to the clipboard, it strips off the formatting. That sounds very simple but it can save you a lot of time when pasting text between different applications (eg Word into Outlook) when all you want is the text to be inserted with the style of the destination app. You can restore formatting or temporarily dsable ClipExact from the system tray icon menu.

POP3 Cleaner PRO

A powerful manual/automatic mailbox cleaning utility with anti-spam capabilities for Windows. You can preview and delete unwanted e-mail messages directly from the mail server and retrieve the rest with your e-mail client (e.g. MS Outlook). Every message is shown with its sender's address, subject, size and the date it was received. POP3 Cleaner PRO can also run fully automated on the system tray and act as a powerful anti-spam filter.

Fast WinSpot

This application loads an icon on the system tray and lets you configure its menu items from it, beeing them applications, documents or 'system actions', like rebooting windows, shutdown system, power off etc... Fast WinSpot software is a shareware filed under utilities utilities.

PS Tray Factory

This utility allows you to: hide low-activity icons from a system tray into menu, hide inactive icons from a system tray into menu (as in Windows XP), get fast access to the hidden icons, change the order of icons in the menu and in the system tray (sort tray), protect tray menu with password, minimize any application to tray, restore icons in system tray area at crash or restarting Explorer.exe.

Process Tamer

This software is a tiny (140k) and efficient utility for Microsoft Windows XP/2K/NT that runs in your system tray and constantly monitors the cpu usage of other processes. When it sees a process that is overloading your cpu, it reduces the priority of that process temporarily, until its cpu usage returns to a reasonable level. now includes tons of new options and a friendly gui configuration tool. This freeware is listed under systemtray, process, shell category.

Tray Pilot

This tool allows you to hide the System Tray icons. It might be useful if you have too many icons in your System Tray and there is not much place left for the buttons of your running applications on the taskbar. Just click a small button to the right of the System Tray, - your System Tray will hide and space for the taskbar buttons will be expanded. This utilities software is categorized under taskbar.

IP Desktop Viewer WIN2K

Display your current external ip address on your desktop. This small application that will display your current external ip address for you on your desktop. IP Desktop Viewer will show up as a system tray icon. If you hold your mouse over the icon your current ip address will display. If you right-click on the icon you will see a pop-up menu to either "refresh" your ip address which will newly check your external ip address.

Emsa Time Synchronizer

This utility is a very simple but useful time synchronization utility. Users that like simplicity, may indeed like this program. Just one click of a button - and your computer clock is automatically set, using an atomic internet time server. The program runs as system tray icon. It can be configured to run automatically at Windows startup, and continously re-synchronize your clock at an user-specified time interval. Freeware.

Hotkey Sound Recorder

This multimedia utility is a powerful sound recording software. Besides normal recording functions, it allows you to record sound by pressing hotkey or by clicking the system tray icon. It is able to save recorded sound as MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV or VOX file. With Hotkey Sound Recorder, what you hear is what you get! Hotkey Sound Recorder also provides built-in file manager to help you convert, play, rename, delete recorded sound files.

Email Security

When you send email messages, Internet Service Providers (ISP) usually store the messages on their mail servers before they try to deliver them. This can be a major risk for you because your relevant information can be viewed and printed on that end, and someday used against you. Email Security sends your email messages directly to recipient mailboxes without leaving any traces on the Internet. Email Security is licensed as shareware and filed in e-mail section.

MZL & Novatech Traffic Statistics

MZL & Novatech TrafficStatistic shows accumulated bandwidth usage of a network interface like ethernet, DSL or PPP in tray. It generates IP traffic statistics IPDR data and the user can generate reports on his top bandwidth consumers cut by host and service. Reports allow to identify and to analyze unexpected traffic and to optimize volume consumption habbits over long periods. Especially useful it is for users in a bandwidth metered charge plan.

FastOpen XP Gold

This utility let you design menus that work just like the Start menu.  It takes very little time to come up with a menu that works for you. FastOpen XP Gold has many features to help you manage a menu of files, folders and web address, and can display an unlimited number of menu items and menus. The menu is available from an icon in the tray bar area or from button next to the Start menu.

HotShift Free

Workplace targeted simple color-coded desktop calendar for 24-hour rotating shifts. Useful to Fire Service employees, family and friends. Can optionally be activated from system tray.Simple setup, simple functionality but free. No ads, does not need to connect to internet with the exception of Online Help which is really not needed. The limitation of this program is that it does no printing and does not create web calendars. This freeware is listed under business pims, calendars category.

Screen Video Recorder

This utility is an easy-to-use, fast, and powerful video-recording software. You can use this screen capture software to record full screen or any area of the desktop screen, and you can record audio and mouse cursor's movement. It can be used to record web cams from AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, or capture movies from TV card, DVD, RM, VCD, MPEG. It also facilitates making slide show training documents.

Minimail

This internet utility is a small, convenient and easy to use tool for the creation and sending of plain text e-mails. It features file attachments, multiple accounts, signatures, logging, SMTP authentication, undo and redo, view settings and more. Its primary purpose is to provide a quick and easy way to send e-mails without the need to open your bulky, full-featured e-mail client. It's fully resizable and can be minimized to the task bar or the system tray.

TrayDay

This software: today's date at a glance, in the system tray, with popup calendar which you can keep on top of other windows if you like. Can show week numbers to ISO (or your own) standard. Type any date anywhere, in your own language, and with user-defined formats. These can include counters and ordinals, and week/day number dates, eg 2002-W14-1 for April 1, 2002. Julian Day and Internet Time features.

Brooks INTELLIscribe LPR Client

INTELLIscribe is an LPR Print Client enabling you to seamlessly send documents to printers and print servers anywhere in the world using the TCP/IP Internet protocol. It's very easy to set up and use and includes excellent documentation to get you up and running quickly. Features include: shared printing, destination balancing, round-robin printing, broadcast printing, fail-over printing, reduced server demand, easy reprint, and more.

Direct MP3 Recorder Free

With Direct MP3 Recorder you can record high quality audio in MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, Wave from internal or external sources. You can record audio when you play games, watch movies, or listen to music even if it is protected. You can digitize LP records and tapes, record voice from microphone, or other source such as MIDI, VCR, Internet audio streaming. You can do speedy recording by hot keys or signal detection, or scheduled recordings by timer. Audio freeware listed in audio, multimedia audio file recorders tools.

WallPaperPlus

WallPaper Plus puts new life into your Desktops background images. WallPaper Plus lets you change your desktop wallpaper at regular intervals, ranging from once a minute to once a day. It supports the Active Desktop, so you can use your favorite gifs and jpegs as wallpaper. Placed in the System Tray, the program runs in the background and allows access to all major functions through the right mouse button. For variety, you can develop and d. Utilities shareware listed in windows desktop, wallpaper changers, desktop utilities tools.

Hide Master

This utility is powerful but easy to use tool for hiding windows and programs. Hide Master allows you to hide (and unhide) specified windows and groups of windows by pressing a combination of Hotkeys. Also it allows you to hide (and unhide) specified controls (buttons, comboboxses, listboxes, etc.) manually. You can specify a lot of options for each registered program and group. Hide Master works in hidden mode.

DeskNET Command Center

Developed as an alternative to newsletter emails, DeskNET provides an exclusive method for webmasters and companies to stay in contact with their customers and subscribers and keep them coming back, time and time again. With DeskNET, webmasters can broadcast a variety of text, image and multimedia files directly onto their subscribers desktop. News Alerts and information updates can be flashed straight onto the screen.

dLauncher

This tool is a simple, easy to use program launcher. A good alternative to the Windows Start Menu. Friendly and intuitive. It provides quick access to your favorite programs, shortcuts, folders, documents and websites. You can create program groups, customize the list of items to include, set several item attributes. dLauncher allows you to launch your favorite programs using a simple menu from the system tray, panel and shortcuts.

BitMeter 2

This internet software is a bandwidth meter, it allows you to visually monitor your internet connection by displaying a scrolling graph that shows your upload and download speed over time. Features include: Graphical and numerical displays of historical data, Web interface, Alerts, Stopwatch, Calculator, Transparent/Float/Click-through modes, 36-page help file, Audio notifications, Configurable colour-schemes and many other options.

ClipSafe Clipboard Backup

ClipSafe backs up data copied to the clipboard, protecting it from accidental erasure. Your computer's standard clipboard can only store one piece of data at a time. Without ClipSafe installed, whenever you copy new data to the clipboard, existing data is lost. ClipSafe begins monitoring your clipboard automatically when you log in to your computer. Conveniently restore clipboard data using an icon on the system tray.

Passphrase Keeper

Prevent identity theft! Swidgets Passphrase Keeper securely stores and manages all your account information - user names, passwords, PINs, combinations, credit card numbers - using powerful Blowfish encryption. A single password - the only one you'll need to remember - unlocks it all! Passphrase Keeper fills in login forms automatically or with drag and drop, generates passwords, opens websites, prints or exports data to HTML and text, and more.

ANT 4 MailChecking SE2000

ANT 4 MailChecking is a system-tray utility that lets you know when you have new email messages. It's very easy to set up and use and even includes support for spam filtering. It allows you to set up as many separate accounts as you like and checks for new messages at a regular interval of your choosing. ANT 4 MailChecking also allows you to set up a variety of spam filtering rules, based on sender, subject, and message size.

NewsPiper

This internet software scans your favorites news sites (like www.cnn.com), retrieve news headlines and show them in a small always-on-top window (News Line) which can be moved on any place on your desktop. For each shown headline you can open "full story" page in your default web browser simply by clicking on the headline. You can add new site for scanning (channel) just by indicating the URL and regualar expression for headlines recognition.

ScreenShot

Using your Print Screen key, ScreenShot will capture your present screen and provide you with options to save, modify, email, display, print and copy to clipboard it. One of the most appealing features is the option to choose your shot selection. Shots can be captured in full-screen, active window or cursor selection and will automatically save and open the shot in your default graphics application!

BreakTru ReMind

ReMind is a fantastic timer, alarm, calendar, and schedule program that can be accessed from your system tray. An audible and visual alarm signals you of a preset task or event. Set several reminders, from seconds to years from now. Choose from 4 unique sounds. Great for bill payments, important dates, and medication reminders. Program uses very little memory while running in the back ground. Home/hobby shareware listed in calendar tools.

EyeCU

This software turns your existing PC camera into a full-featured video surveillance system. The program utilizes proprietary analysis techniques to detect motion in the images captured by your camera. If motion is detected, EyeCU can play a custom sound notification and save the detection images. In addition, the e-mail notification feature will automatically connect to the Internet and send captured images to any e-mail address you would desire.

Hogense monitor keylogger

Software that is an easy to use surveillance tool,running completely invisible.It takes periodic screenshots,logs all keystrokes typed and clipboard information, records emails,Internet activity and chat conversations of both sides.In a word,with this software,you can monitor everything users do on PC.

Shutdown Manager

- Clipboard Viewer/Saver - Catch others Shutdown attempts - Allows Fast Mode (forced) - File Finder - Wait for windows - Connect to remote - Tasks before closing Windows - Full screen shots with Browser - Calendar - IP's to clipboard - Disable Start Menu, TaskBar, Keyboard - Memory Defragmenter - Animate Start Button. - Time Server - Tray Icons to Open CDs - Query Recycle Bin - Screen saver Utility - and more...

TimesOwn

Whats the time - anywhere in the World? User friendly TimesOwn answers, displaying the zones, countries and people names of regular interest. Also casual time lookups. Easy Daylight Savings correction. Just a click away in your system tray. Used globally. Brilliant for friends, colleagues, work associates and family around the Global Village. Use for meetings, phone calls, web conferencing etc. TimesOwn is licensed as shareware and filed in time difference section.

Cerberus FTP Server

This internet software provides powerful, multithreaded FTP server performance without sacrificing ease-of-use. Designed to use very little CPU and memory, Cerberus features a user-friendly interface that can be easily hidden or accessed from the system tray. Connection limit, timeout, and IP access can be controlled by the administrator as well as a variety of other settings.

Heidi R. Stealthy (TM)

Protect your Privacy. Instantly conceal your current PC or laptop activities with a single mouse-click. Your open, visible application windows can be hidden from your desktop, taskbar, and the ALT+TAB keystroke combination. Disable CTRL+ALT+DEL! Hide desktop shortcuts. Launch a decoy app (i.e. MP3, WAV, Word, Excel, etc.). Hidden apps continue to function, more! Fun, inexpensive, FREE to try! Who's that looking over your shoulder now? This miscellaneous software is categorized under desktop, privacy.