TrayTrigger

Every game in one library

A dark, Fluent-style interface: poster art, rounded cards, Segoe Fluent icons, no menu bar and no ribbon. The launcher part, so the session part has something to run.

• Seven launchers, one scan. Steam, GOG, EA, Epic, Ubisoft Connect, Xbox / PC Game Pass, and Battle.net games arrive with their real titles and launch through their own client. Drop any exe, shortcut, or folder for the rest.
• Artwork and info. Steam metadata and poster art, SteamGridDB box art and RAWG details where Steam has none, each behind your own free key.
• Three views: poster grid, large icons, detailed list. Filter by launcher, profile, or state; group by category; edit a whole selection at once, with undo.
• The tray menu. Now Playing, Recent, Favorites, and every category one right-click away, with game icons, a compact layout, and a per-game launch hotkey recorded from the keys you press.

Launchers that stay out of the way

• Launch arguments per game: -windowed -ResX=1280, -dx11, -skipintro, whatever the engine takes.
• Close the launcher after the game exits, so Steam, GOG Galaxy, Epic, the EA app, Ubisoft Connect, the Xbox app, or Battle.net isn't still sitting in your tray an hour later.
• Launchers stay minimized: Steam and GOG Galaxy start in the background and Epic launches silently, so only the game appears.
• Launch popup by the tray clock for hotkey and tray launches: what the game is waiting on, and the reason if a launch fails.
• Tools (optional): launch the apps you use alongside games, like DLSS Swapper or MSI Afterburner, from the same tray menu and hotkeys.
• Run as Administrator per game, CPU core affinity per game, launch directly to bypass a launcher entirely when the game allows it.
• Hardware monitoring in the same window: live CPU and RAM load, GPU, VRAM, displays, drives, and DirectX capability, without a second app.

Tuned for each game, restored on exit

• Off: no per-game tweaks. TrayTrigger just launches the game.
• Optimized: your custom high-performance power plan and high-performance GPU preference for that game. Opt-in extras: Enable HDR, Do Not Disturb, Unmute Speakers.
• Aggressive: everything in Optimized, plus System Responsiveness, MMCSS "Games" scheduling priority, Above Normal process priority, a 0.5 ms timer resolution request, and an off-by-default Defender exclusion.
• Every profile change is recorded and reverted on exit. Set it per game, or in bulk from the library.

Your scripts, before and after every game

• Five real-world examples ship with it: pause Wallpaper Engine, Quiet Mode (close Discord and friends, reopen after), Companion Apps, OBS replay buffer, Save Backup.
• Per-game Script Arguments, a Test Run button with captured output, timeouts, and cancel-the-launch-on-failure.
• Scripts run as you, never elevated unless you choose it. Read them before you attach them; that's the whole security model.
• Community scripts live in the TrayTrigger-Scripts catalog, reviewed by pull request.

:: close-discord.bat  (pre-launch)
taskkill /IM Discord.exe /F >nul 2>&1

Windows, ready for play

20 system-wide settings, separate from per-game profiles. Each one shows Windows' real current state before you touch it, and each reverts to the exact state TrayTrigger found, not a hard-coded default. Every tweak has a wiki page that explains the trade-off honestly, because most aren't a guaranteed win for every game.

• Display & Input. Mouse acceleration · Sticky, Filter, and Toggle Keys shortcuts · Optimizations for Windowed Games · Variable Refresh Rate for windowed games · Auto HDR · Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling · Fullscreen optimizations · Multiplane Overlay
• CPU & Scheduling Priority. Windows Game Mode · System Timer Resolution · Foreground Priority Boost · Windows Visual Effects · "Ultimate Plan" power plan
• Network & Background Activity. MMCSS network throttling · Nagle's Algorithm · Delivery Optimization · Windows Update driver exclusion · Game Bar captures · Xbox Game Bar overlay · Diagnostic telemetry sweeps
• Security (status only). Core Isolation / Memory Integrity: shown and linked to Windows Security, never counted as an "optimization".
• Apply Performance Preset turns on every recommended tweak with at most one UAC prompt. Reset Defaults reverts only what TrayTrigger changed. A System Restore point can be created before either. Full list: How Performance Tweaks work.