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Idyle Tray Minimizer - Control Center

The Control Center is the best way to enhance your productivity with Tray Minimizer. It will allow you to create shortcuts for items you regularly like to have minimized, and associate a "Tray Minimize" feature to your right-click menu items such as "Open", "Edit" or "Print".


Shortcut name

This is the name the shortcut will have. For example, you could give it "Trayed Notepad" or "Trayed Explorer". This really is the name the shortcut will appear under.


Shortcut filename

This is the program or document you wish to run. It might be an application (exe), for example "C:\Windows\Notepad.exe" - or a document, for example "C:\My Documents\Word Docs\Invoice.Doc". You can also use the browse button to select your file easily.


Shortcut arguments

These are the parameters you wish to pass to the program. For example, if your program is Internet Explorer, then you might want to add the argument "-nohome" to skip the default home page.


Create this shortcut

This will create the shortcut according to the settings you entered in the Create a shortcut panel.


Shortcut location

A shortcut might be placed in several places. It might indeed be on the Desktop, near the "My Computer" icon, or in your Start Menu with all your other programs shortcuts.


Test this shortcut

This feature will execute the shortcut, so you can actually test it before you create it somewhere.


Create a shortcut
Shortcut

This panel will allow you to create a shortcut somewhere on your system. Shortcuts are an easy way to use Tray Minimizer. These are the fields you have to fill up: Name, Filename, Location. You can also fill the optional Arguments field.

Finally, when you have filled all the required information, you are ready to Test your shortcut, and if everything is according to your needs, actually Create the shortcut.


About
About Idyle Tray Minimizer Control Center

Tray Minimizer was created and developped by Damien Ramé, from Idyle Software http://www.idyle.com/. He also is the author of these award-winning softwares: Phone Book Pro 97 (ZD-Net Annual Shareware Award nominee , highest possible rating from most popular shareware sites) and CoffeeCup Image Mapper++ (5 cows rating from Tucows and available world-wide).

You can always check for the latest version at http://www.idyle.com/tm/.

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Exit
Exit Tray Minimizer Control Center

Quits the Tray Minimizer Control Center


List of extensions

These are all the extensions that are registered with Windows 95. To add or modify extensions, go in your Start Menu, select Run. Type in: "C:\", and from the View menu, select the Options item. From there, select the File Types page, and make all the required modifications (add, modify or delete registered extension). For more help on this matter, please consult your Windows 95 manual.


Add "Tray Minimize" right-click menu option

Have you ever seen that double-clicking on a Word document will bring up Word with the document loaded? I guess so! Have you seen that when you are right-clicking on a file, you often have several choices such as "Open", "Edit" or "Print". Well, how would you like to have a "Tray Minimize" to some file types? This panel will allow you to do just that!

First select the extension(s) you wish to add this feature on, then simply click "Add Tray Minimize" button, and you are done. To select several extension at the time, either click on the first, and then click on the last while holding the Shift key, or select the first, and any other while holding the Control key. For example, to select All extensions, click the first entry with your left mouse button, then, while holding the Shift key, press Control and End.


Extension

This is the extension of this file type (for example, ".exe" or ".doc"). To modify this value, please refer to Windows 95 manual.


File type

This is the actual type of a file. For example, "Word document" for ".doc" extension. To modify this value, please refer to Windows 95 manual.


Open with

This is the default program Windows 95 uses to open this file type. For example "winword.exe" for a ".doc" type. To modify this value, please refer to Windows 95 manual.


Add "Tray Minimize"

This will add the "Tray Minimize" item in the right-click menu for this file's extension. This will allow you to automatically minimize to the tray all files with this specific extension.


Remove "Tray Minimize"

This will remove the "Tray Minimize" feature from your right-click menu, for this file extension.