Windows Mail & Outlook Express Tray Control – Minimize to tray!
April 27th, 2006 by 
Patrick Elliott
We’ve all wanted to minimize Outlook Express / Windows Mail into the system tray before — Outlook does it, other mail programs do it. Well, Kristan Kenney over at digitalfive.org has created a nice little app that provides this functionality.
Check out his blog for the original post, and to download the app
http://digitalfive.org/content/windows-mail-outlook-express-tray-control.html
– Patrick Elliott
Posted in Windows Server System, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 
6 Comments »
April 27th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
I must say, this a very practical idea! I wonder why Microsoft haven’t done this across the board with all their apps!?! Surely it can’t be a difficult tol to implement…?
April 28th, 2006 at 2:35 am
Not at all..it would be easy to make!
Its practical and worth adding!
April 28th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
The feature request has been made for Outlook Express and now again for Windows Mail — it’s doubtful you’ll see it added at least for Windows Vista though. Patrick
April 28th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
There was a power-toy made for media player that was similar to this…that should do the same
May 1st, 2006 at 5:31 pm
The idea for this actually came from Outlook 2003’s “Minimize to tray” functionality, and I was getting pretty tired of having Outlook Express / Windows Mail sitting in the taskbar itself all day taking up space. So… this tool was born. 😛
There IS a PowerToy for Windows Media Player which allows you to control & minimize/hide media player to the system tray. It’s available in the Microsoft Windows Media Bonus Pack for Windows XP.
January 4th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Does anyone have a copy of this handy? the website digitalfive.org no longer works