Mike Sanders developed qTray (Quick Tray), currently my FAVORITE application. It is a very small program that sits in your system tray that will allow you to add programs, websites, etc into a list and be given the ability to select them anytime with a click or a few keys. I have found this application probably the most helpful since I started Solution Watch and really is a time saver.

“qTray (Quick Tray) is a small, handy tool that gives you access to a maximum of 15 of your most commonly used applications via a popup menu. Lean, mean, and never in your way, qTray serves one purpose, and one purpose only – to save time.”

The way I like to use it is by using the Shortcut feature that will have the menu popup directly at your cursors location. Then by assigning a access key to the name from the list, its just a simple shortcut. For example, to open Firefox, I have it set to: Alt + Q + F. Alt + Q will bring up the menu, F will select Firefox. If you want it to have notepad in it, simply do:

&Notepad=Notepad.exe

There you have it. The “&” will set the letter “N” to the access key. To call it, either right click the icon in the system tray, or do Alt + Q + N. This program saves so much time for me, I love it, and it is only at the size of 34kb!

View the qTray application created by Mike Sanders.