No need to buy anything. wxPerl has support for trayicons on windows (although somewhat limited it's got all you want).

If that's not good enough, such an application is somewhat trivial to create, so we can always roll a open source solution (1).

update: How do you toggle the system tray icon using Win32::Gui? is yet another perl way of doing something like that.

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.