12-Tray restores tray icons after a "crash" or restart of the taskbar (explorer.exe). Usually the taskbar comes up after a crash without any tray icons. You had to stop and restart all related programs to restore their tray icons. Now, 12-Tray will restore tray icons for you automatically!
To keep track of many tray icons you may hide those that you don't need all the time. You can still access such hidden tray icons in the context menu of 12-Tray, including "inactive" icons. Even access tray icons and their menus with the keyboard!
