If you’re like most people, you probably use your mobile devices to access the web. But if you’re like me, you also use your mobile devices to access the system tray for quick access to some of your favorite apps. There are a few ways to do this, but I’m going to show you how I do it using the Windows 10 Mobile app. First, open the Windows 10 Mobile app and sign in with your Microsoft account. Then open the System Tray app and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the screen. The first line is called “Taskbar” and it will show all of your currently running tasks. The second line is called “App Launcher” and it will show all of your currently installed apps. The third line is called “System Tray” and it will show all of your currently running processes. Now, drag one or more of your favorite apps from App Launcher onto the System Tray. You can drag them into any position that works best for you, but I recommend putting them at the top or bottom of the screen so they are always available for quick access. Now that you have some apps pinned to the system tray, you can quickly access them by pressing one of these three keys:

  1. The leftmost key is called “Windows Key” and it will open up a window that shows all of your currently running tasks.
  2. The rightmost key is called “Esc” and it will close all of your current tasks without saving them as a taskbar item.
  3. The middle key is called “Tab” and it will move one or more of your pinned apps up or down on the screen depending on their position in App Launcher.

Sometimes you want to be able to quickly access a website, without the big clunky desktop optimized interface. Treb allows you to do this by pinning mobile websites to the system tray for easy access. Here’s how to use it.

Head over to the developer’s website and download treb. Once the download has completed, unzip it.

Once unzipped find the treb.exe file and double click to launch it.

Once running it will appear in the system tray. Right click and select configure to get started with selecting which web apps you would like.

You can grab a bunch of preconfigured trebs from here. To import them simply click the import button and browse for them.

Once you have imported a treb, an icon will immediately appear in the system tray, click on it to bring up the web app.

You could also make your own trebs, by clicking new instead of import.

Now I can quickly access the iPhone version of How-To Geek.

It supports the Nokia, iPhone and Android user agents.