Traymond

Minimize any window to the system tray — including Chromium browsers and Electron apps.

Right-click a window's minimize button to send it to the tray. Click the tray icon to bring it back. That's it.

The problem

Windows doesn't let you minimize windows to the system tray. The original Traymond solved this with a global hotkey, but it didn't work well with modern apps:

• Chromium and Electron apps (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Helium, VS Code, Discord, Slack) use custom title bars that don't respond to standard Windows hit-testing. There was no way to right-click their minimize button.
• Tray icons could be blank. Chromium windows return icon handles that look valid but render as invisible squares in the tray — your window disappears with no way to get it back.
• Restoring required a double-click, which felt sluggish for something you do constantly.
• Traymond added its own icon to the tray, wasting space for no reason — you never need to interact with Traymond itself.

How this version works

Right-click any minimize button to send the window to the tray. This works on every app — native Win32, Chromium, Electron, CEF, anything with a minimize button. For apps with custom title bars, Traymond uses DPI-aware geometric detection based on DWM's known caption button dimensions (46 DIP wide) to identify the minimize button region.

Tray icons always show up. For Chromium/Electron windows, the icon is extracted directly from the process executable instead of relying on unreliable window icon handles.

If Traymond crashes, all hidden windows are automatically restored on restart. Window handles are saved to disk continuously.

Usage

Action	How
Minimize to tray	Right-click the minimize button, or Win+Shift+Z
Restore	Click the tray icon
Restore all and exit	Win+Shift+X

Traymond runs silently with no tray icon of its own — only icons for minimized windows appear.

Setup

1. Download Traymond.exe from the latest release and put it in a folder (e.g. C:\Tools\Traymond\).
2. Double-click it to start. Right-click minimize works immediately.
3. To start automatically on login, press Win+R, type shell:startup, and drag Traymond.exe into the folder that opens. (Or create a shortcut to it and drag that instead.)

That's it. You never have to think about it again.

Building from source

Requires Visual Studio (MSVC). Open a Developer Command Prompt and run:

nmake