RBTray is a small Windows program that runs in the background and allows almost any window to be minimized to the system tray by:
- Right-Clicking its minimize button
- Shift-Right-Clicking on its title bar
- Using the Windows-Alt-Down hotkey
Note that not all of these methods will work for every window, so please use whichever one works for your needs.
RBTray is free, open source, and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.
Download either the 32-bit or 64-bit binaries (depending on your OS) to a folder, for example "C:\Program Files\RBTray". Double click RBTray.exe to start it. If you want it to automatically start after you reboot, create a shortcut to RBTray.exe in your Start menu's Startup group.
To minimize a program to the system tray, you can use any of these methods:
- Right-click with the mouse on the program's minimize button.
- Hold the Shift key while Right-clicking on the program's title bar.
- Pressing Windows-Alt-Down on the keyboard (all at the same time).
This should create an icon for the window in the system tray. To restore the program's window, single-click the program's icon in the tray. Alternatively, you can Right-click on the tray icon which should bring up a popup menu, then select Restore Window.
Right click on any tray icon created by RBTray and click Exit RBTray in the
popup menu, or run RBTray.exe with the --exit parameter.
For original forum, bug tracker, etc. see RBTray SourceForge project page.
Copyright © 1998-2011 Nikolay Redko, J.D. Purcell
Copyright © 2015 Benbuck Nason
