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Question: Is there a way to minimize the programs taskbar into the tray. I find it really frustrating that Mircosoft hasn’t allowed us to move programs over to the tray. Please help me.

Answer: You’ll be pleased to hear, there is. It’s called “TrayIt“. If that site becomes unavailable then you can download “TrayIT” here.

Unzip it to a folder, and click the trayit!.exe file. Click the continue button and it’ll work in the background. If at any time you want to minimize the windows in the taskbar into the tray beside the PC’s clock, hold down the CTRL key and click the minimize button on the window you want to send over to the Tray. To open it back up again, double click the icon you minimized to the tray.

Question
I often need to move files and have found that the best way to do it is open two instances of Windows Explorer and then resize them so they fit side-by-side on the monitor screen. I find it’s very cumbersome to go through the motions of opening one instance of Explorer, resizing it, then opening another instance of Windows Explorer, and resizing that one. Is there any utility or program that can do this automatically?

Answer
You don’t really need any special utility. Windows makes it easy to get the effect you want. Exactly how you’ll do it depends on the circumstances. Start by launching your two instances of Windows Explorer. If Windows combines the taskbar buttons for the two windwos into a single one with a title that says something like “2 Windows Explorer”, simply right-click that buttn and choose Tile Veritcally from the pop-up menu. If each of them has its own button, try this:

(1) Click one button; (2) Ctrl-click the other; (3) right-click either buttons; (4) choose Tile Vertically from the pop-up menu.

Here’s another method you can also try, possibly necessary if you have more than two instances of Windows Explorer sharing a button on the taskbar:
(1) Minimize all windows except the two Explorer instances; (2) right-click the taskbar itself; (3) choose Tile Windows Vertically from the pop-up menu.

As you can see, there’s plenty of choices to choose from.