There are hundreds of "minimize to tray" programs out there but because 1) none did exactly what I wanted and 2) I've been in a C coding spree for years anyway

I wrote my own. Drop me an E-mail and I'll send to you the binary as well as the full source (MinGW/gcc 4.5+ needed for compilation). And, no, it's not trivial how to do it...
Sorry, I can't help you with your other problem; I'm not very familiar with compression beyond the basic knowledge and some hacking.
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