Finestray

Benbuck·Benbuck.Finestray

Minimize windows to the system tray (notification) area

winget install --id Benbuck.Finestray --exact --source winget

Latest 0.5·August 18, 2026

Release Notes

Finestray-0.5-win64.exe is the installer.

Finestray.exe is the standalone portable executable.

Add more script calls to UpdateVersion.ps1 Remove documented apis from WindowsUndocumented.h ContextMenu visible windows current desktop check Remove win10 shortcut TODO item Don't run clang analyze builds Add zed config files Use explicit c++ 23 standard Fix launch failure with clang build Update cJSON to v1.7.19 Add .codebook.toml for spell checking Split cppcheck-all.bat from analyze-all.bat Fix clang-tidy issues Add clang-tidy scripts Minor build script improvements Minor cmake improvements Add --parallel to all cmake builds Minor markdown file formatting fixes Fix icons for UWP and packaged apps Add error handling to WindowsTracker start() Support tray minimize for UWP windows Add .cache dir to .gitignore Fix some clang analyzer issues Add .editorconfig Improve stealth window detection Restore polling Fix noexcept issues Fix const-ness issues Add analyze-all.bat Fix missing debug print newlines Improve minimize event debug logging Fix buffer allocation logic in Log.cpp Add clang crash and settings window TODO items Minor debug print improvements Better window tracking for add/change events Improve last error handling Move getWindowGext() helper to WindowInfo::getTitle() Minor debug print improvements Remove auto-update from TODO list Minor debug print adjustments Remove winget github workflow, update release checklist Link to correct version of README for help Split app data from Finestray.rc to AppInfo.h

Full Changelog: https://github.com/benbuck/finestray/compare/v0.4...v0.5

Installer type: nullsoft

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Details

Homepage
https://github.com/benbuck/finestray
License
Apache-2.0
Publisher
Benbuck
Support
https://github.com/benbuck/finestray/issues

Tags

minimizetraywindows

Older versions (3)

0.4
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0.3.0.0
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0.2.0.0
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