All-In-One Tray

The desktop is the primary place to launch your apps, games, and files, but Windows allows this to happen even when keeping the desktop just for the background picture. Third-party launchers make it possible to keep your computer tidy, but also have access various system, and custom paths, and All-In-One Tray is a suitable example in this regard.

A neat advantage is that you don’t have to go through the effort of pressing a few Next buttons to make it work, because the application skips the installation process, and can even run from a thumb drive on other computers. Don’t worry about the PC you use it on, because it doesn’t get affected in any way, since registries are not a dependency.

Needless to say that launching the application adds a new icon in the tray area, which is the place from which you can launch a stunning amount of predefined functions. Most of them are Windows features and functions which would normally require some time and effort to locate in different areas of the Control Panel.

Split into different categories, you can quickly access Tools and configurations, System controls, such as power options, as well as several built-in tools, like backup, utility manager, on-screen keyboard, steps recorder, and more. There aren’t any options to set up hotkeys, but the tray icon provides enough flexibility as is.

As mentioned above, the application also gives you the possibility to add custom programs to be launched this way. Unfortunately, you’re limited to a maximum of four slots, and adding them can get a bit frustrating, since you need to manually write down, or paste the target path, end neither can these items be launched through hotkeys.

All-In-One Tray isn’t quite your average launcher, since its core function is to make it easy to access most of Windows management options. Sure enough, this makes it a lot easier than getting lost in the Control Panel, but it could have used more slots for custom programs, considering support is already there.