YABLESSTRAY · FOR WINDOWS
YablessTray
A tidy desktop, one double-click away.
Most desktops end up as a wall of icons. YablessTray turns them into a few groups, each one a single folder icon. Double-click a group and a ring of frosted glass opens with your apps inside. Click one and it launches. Click anywhere else and the ring is gone.
It is deliberately small. A little service in the tray keeps it ready, so a ring opens about 0.2 seconds after the double-click. And each group is an ordinary folder, so everything in it still works in Explorer, with or without the app.
How it works
- Double-click a group on your desktop.
- The glass ring opens with your apps inside.
- Click one to launch it.
- Drop a shortcut on the group to add it.
What it does
- Groups: a pile of desktop icons becomes a few folder icons.
- Instant: a ring opens in about 0.2 seconds.
- Glass: the ring blurs what is behind it and leaves everything else sharp.
- Plain folders: every group still works in Explorer without the app.
- Adding is a drop: shortcuts on the desktop move in, and real files ask first.
- Settings, the how-to and New group sit behind the Y in your tray.
Get it
- Download the zip from the release page on our GitHub.
- Unzip it into a folder you will keep it in, and keep the two .exe files together.
- Run YablessTray.services.exe. A Y appears in your tray, under "Show hidden icons". Click it for Settings and the how-to.
- Right-click the Y and choose New group to make your first group.
Check it before you run it: the release page will list each file’s checksum, a short fingerprint, so you can confirm the zip on your PC is exactly the one we published.
If Windows warns you
Windows may say it protected your PC. SmartScreen says that about a new program whose file, or the certificate it is signed with, has not built up a reputation with Microsoft yet. It means “not yet known”, not “malware”: Windows warns differently about programs on its list of known unsafe ones. To go ahead, choose More info, then Run anyway.
If you have switched on Controlled folder access (it is off by default), Windows may stop YablessTray from making a group folder in Documents. That is Windows letting only apps it trusts change your protected folders, which is exactly what you want it to do. To allow YablessTray, open Windows Security, then Virus & threat protection, then Manage settings, then Manage controlled folder access, then Allow an app through Controlled folder access, and add YablessTray.services.exe.
YablessTray never uses the internet. Its two parts talk to each other only on your PC, so it never needs to be let through your firewall. If a firewall ever asks, you can say no.
YablessTray is Yablessom’s own software. Its licence comes with the download.