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CyberDoc999 reviewed v4.0.0.139 Beta on Aug 2, 2009

SysTrayX does what it says.... now if they would lower the price..... I would pay $15 or $20 and that even seems too high... they also have activation which keeps you from using it on both your desktop and your laptop.....

emanresU deriseD reviewed v4.0.0.139 Beta on Jul 22, 2009

Windows doesn't already do all this. Try reading, or have someone help you.

FreeSpeech reviewed v4.0.0.139 Beta on Jul 22, 2009

Would somene really pay $27 for something that windows can aleady do? Yeah I know that you can't do this on 2k, ME, or 95.

LOL

kindbud1 reviewed v4.00.135 Beta on Jan 20, 2009

27 bucks?! LOL.

Ryusennin reviewed v4.00.132 Beta on Aug 20, 2008

It's very useful for 2K, but not so much for XP. And the price is quite steep for what the program does.

gate1975mlm reviewed v4.00.132 Beta on Aug 19, 2008

Cool!

Its would seem SysTrayX now works on Windows Vista!

I have been waiting for Vista support!

I will be testing this out for sure.

Since its beta I hope there are not too many bugs in it.

The thing I really like about SysTrayX is if Windows Explore crashes SysTrayX will bring all your icons back in the system tray next to the clock!

comeoffit reviewed v3.80.115 on Sep 15, 2006

Tray Wizard is no substitute. There is no hotkey to show the menu (you have to use the Tray Wizard tray icon to access any other tray icons you've hidden). The Tray Wizard menu doesn't show the tray icons' tooltip (which I find to be a handy feature of SysTrayX). Tray Wizard can't sort tray icons. And the Tray Wizard menu is cluttered with a slew of other nonsense menu items to access its settings, and totally unnecessary Windows power events (shut down, etc.). The power events icons can be hidden, but the others cannot.

Nice try...

CoMa reviewed v3.80.115 on Aug 3, 2006

You can get Tray Wizard 4.03 from here
http://www.gratilog.net/francais/systeme/tw403.exe

biggman15 reviewed v3.70.110 on Sep 2, 2005

I wanted to Try this So called Tray Wizard... But it doesn't seem to Exist anymore...

anomoly reviewed v3.70.110 on Jul 28, 2005

get tray wizard, it's free.
http://www.soft32.com/download_9159.html

httpd.confused reviewed v3.70.107 Beta on Jun 27, 2005

OK, I'll explain it again. Try to keep up this time.

SysTrayX does overlap Windows XP's shell functionality. BUT, what it does differently is:

* Present hidden tray icons in a menu, rather than in the tray;

* Offer a hotkey, rather than just a mouse click, to reveal the hidden icons;

* Let you decide what icons get hidden, and when, rather than waiting for Windows to decide for you;

* Let you TOTALLY hide specified icons (from the tray AND the SysTrayX menu) -- Windows does not do this;

* Show tray icon tooltip text right in the menu, rather than requiring a mouse-over.

Now, tell me again that SysTrayX does nothing differently than Explorer.

I have no problem with the argument that $27 is too much for this utility. I agree, it is. And I rate it a 3, now, because development on it has ground to a halt, more and more application icons seem to give it problems, and that idiotic splash screen is still there, even for registered users (but a Google search and a resource editor takes care of that).

I don't use SysTrayX anymore, and I only started using it at all because it came out before Windows XP did.

Primis reviewed v3.70.107 Beta on Jun 21, 2005

"SysTrayX helps you hide some of the less used icons from the system tray"

You mean like how Windows XP already has as built-in functionality and has had since the start? You're kidding right? Despite what everyone says, this really doesn't do anything the built-in one on XP doesn't already do. And the addition of a "SysTrayX menu" makes no sense, when on XP you can just click an arrow and get to the exact same items. We're talking abotu adding steps and clicks here rather than streamlining. I don't get it.

Don't waste your money or time on this people. Upgrade to WinXP if you want this feature. You can spend $27 on just this, or $99 and get a newer, full-fledged OS upgrade with the same functionality. The choice is stupidly-obvious. As to the "old hardware" contention... if your hardware is really that old how can you justify wasting $27 on shareware then? Save your money and get the hardware upgrade.

If it were totally freeware maybe I could see it appealing to very, very niche of extremely critical and picky people, but shareware? $27? Ugh... we're getting desperate aren't we?...

anomoly reviewed v3.70.107 Beta on Jun 21, 2005

Tray Wizard v4.02-FREE
http://hw-driver.nctu.edu.tw/pub/slime/tools/tw403.exe
I don't know why it says 403. It will minimize most all aps to tray (noticed it didn't like foobar) and with it's one icon will hide any & all other tray icons & still give access to them. I use it for thunderbird & all the icons I don't use often