Running in the Tray
Running DebugView in the system tray is useful if you want it to capture debug output but do not it to take up space on the desktop or task bar. You minimize DebugView to the system try by selecting the Edit|Minimize to Tray menu item, which both changes the menu item to Edit|Minimize to Task Bar and has DebugView appear as an icon on the tray. To reactivate DebugView from the tray you double-click on its tray icon. Subsequently minimizing DebugView by clicking on its window minimize button will minimize it to the tray. To minimize DebugView to the task bar, select Edit|Minimize To Task Bar, after which the minimize button will function as normal.
When DebugView is in the tray its icon is colored if global capture is enabled and black-and-white if global capture is disabled. The right-click context menu for the DebugView tray icon is a copy of the DebugView Capture menu, which allows you to enable and disable global capture, Win32 capture, and kernel-mode capture.