The system tray is much more than a parking place for wayward programs. Now it's your turn to tell us all about the tools you have tucked into your tray that you can't live without.

For this week's Hive Five, we want to hear which programs you have stashed in your system tray that provide some invaluable function to you. We realize lots of full-sized programs are parked out of the way in the system tray, while others live and breath almost exclusively tucked into your tray—we want to focus on those gems you would consider primarily as a system tray application.

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