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How do I get my task-bar buttons on my task-bar again?

How to organize the buttons on the XP taskbar?

  • Does anyone know of a modification for windows XP that allows you shuffle/organize the buttons on the taskbar, like the tabs on Internet Explorer or Firefox? I sometimes work with 20 windows open or more at once with many different programs and sometimes i get confused with which one is for what because many of them are similar, I know in XP you can group similar taskbar buttons but this wouldn't work for me.

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    Taskbar Shuffle will let you rearrange them. "Taskbar Shuffle is a simple, small, free utility that lets you drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons to rearrange them. " http://nerdcave.webs.com/taskbarshuffle.htm

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Taskbar Shuffle is pretty neat, but if it locks up for some reason (rare, but it happened to me on several occasions) it'll do odd things to your taskbar like leaving some buttons "ghosted" under your mouse pointer or making the taskbar nonresponsive. All that needs to be done to fix this is to end the taskbar shuffle's process in task manager.

boo_radley

Not exactly what you are looking for, but when I moved to a widescreen notebook, I moved my taskbar to the left side of the screen. The programs stack rather than line up, and I can fit plenty of them on there. And I can read what the title is.

gjc

Thirding Taskbar Shuffle, it's exactly what you're looking for. I've never had any of the problems boo_radley describes.

oulipian

I have used http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013430/program.html for a few years (site is in japanese, click on Taskbar ++ on the sidebar, Links at the top of the page for zip and exe) and love it. You just hold down 'alt' and click/drag the program buttons where you want them.

effigy

Taskix'll do it too, and it's less glitchy in my experience. http://taskix.robustit.com/ P.S. Middle-click closes windows, which is just wonderful until you're working on a machine that doesn't have TBS/Taskix, then you go crazy.

Plug Dub In

Taskbar Shuffle also lets you move items in your system tray, if that's bothering you.

Chrysostom

Taskix is slightly less pretty then Taskbar Shuffle, but uses a lot less memory. Taskix works effectively in my opinion, and it's what I use.

gryftir

I use Taskbar Shuffle and haven't experienced any problems with it. I like it because you just click and drag to rearrange, rather than having to hold down a key while clicking and dragging.

katyggls

I use taskbar shuffle, which is great, but I've also found it helps to double the height of the task bar so that it's two "rows" tall. That's just a normal Windows option. Apologies if this is an obvious suggestion.

mullacc

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