Tag: TASKBAR

WinExt is a free utility that adds a toolbar to the top or bottom of your Windows PC that provides quick access to a ton of features and programs. For instance, it automatically grabs the bookmarks from your default web browser and adds them to the URLs menu allowing you to launch your web browser and open any of your bookmarks in just a few clicks. (Arguably, you could already do this in just a ...

Winamp has always been one of my favorite media players. One of its best features is its extensibility. Thanks to an enthusiastic developer community, there are tons of great plugins that let you personalize Winamp to your liking. Like many mainstream apps, Winamp doesn't yet take advantage of Windows 7 shell enhancements like jumplists, thumbnail preview player controls (a la Windows Media ...

Running Windows 7? If you constantly fiddle with settings and install and uninstall as many apps as I do during the course of a week, do yourself a favor: pin the Control panel to your taskbar. Doing so gives you two-click access to system tools you've probably been utilizing frequently, like Programs and Features, system properties, Action Center, and Notifications. Since jumplists ...

Windows 7 has a shiny new user interface that aims to make it easier to accomplish tasks on your computer without getting distracted by all the eye candy. But before settling on the new Windows taskbar, Aero Peek feature and other design elements, Microsoft considered a number of other possibilities. TechRadar has a look at some of them. For instance, an early toolbar design had a taskbar with ...

One of the most noticeable new features in Windows 7 is the shiny new taskbar. While it bears a passing resemblance to the taskbar that we've grown to love/hate over the past decade or so, the new taskbar represents a new paradigm in window management for Microsoft. There's no text, and there's no quick launch bar. When you open a program, an icon will show up in the taskbar. Open multiple ...

As Adam reported earlier, the Superbar has been unlocked in Windows 7. Apart from adding even more visual pop to the improved Desktop Window Manager, it adds some long-absent functionality. Apart from better visual task tips with smooth transition effects, it's fixed another minor annoyance. At last you can click and drag taskbar buttons to re-order them. I've always been a little irritated by ...

Microsoft is officially introducing Windows 7 today at the Professional Developers Conference. The company will also be making an early build of the next generation Windows operating system available to developers, but it will probably be a little while before the rest of us can get our grubby little paws on it. As expected, Windows 7 looks a lot like Windows Vista so far. Which isn't ...

You can clear up space on a Windows desktop by minimizing applications you're not currently looking at to the taskbar. But what happens when the taskbar is so overrun with programs that you can't make heads or tales of it? Wouldn't it be nice if you could just minimize your applications to the system tray? TrayEverything is a Windows utility that lets you do just that. Just download and install ...

There are plenty of things the Windows shell does really well, but there are other relatively minute details that have been overlooked since Windows 95 that really piss us off - like the ability to click and drag taskbar buttons. Thankfully, this 600k app that will let you do just that. Taskbar Shuffle is 32-bit Windows-only (it works on all versions, 95 to Vista), obviously, and it gives you free ...

While we know a lot of folks like to pan Windows Vista's new graphics as useless eye candy, there are a few aspects of the Aero interface that are actually pretty useful. For example, in Windows Vista you can get a real-time thumbnail preview of running applications by scrolling over the Windows taskbar. But you can get this feature without switching operating systems, thanks to Visual ToolTip, ...

Windows makes it easy to rearrange the items in your quick start menu by clicking and dragging. But for some reason, you can't move the items in your taskbar. A while back we told you about Taskbar Shuffle, a simple program for reorganizing running programs in your taskbar. It's a lightweight program taking up just about 600k of memory. But for the memory frugal, Taskix does pretty much the same ...

From the "Why didn't somebody think of this before?" files... Taskbar Shuffle is a simple Windows utility that allows you to rearrange the order of your taskbar items by dragging and dropping. And now I'm wondering how I'm going to fill an entire post with info about Taskbar Shuffle, because there's not much more to say beyond that! It is refreshing in its simplicity. (I'm suddenly reminded of ...

GroupBar is an interesting new take on the taskbar from Microsoft Research's VIBE group. As the name implies, GroupBar's primary function is grouping, in particular grouping sets of windows. Superficially, GroupBar looks not unlike the standard Windows taskbar, if a tad funky, but in addition to the taskbar's usual abilities, GroupBar lets you arrange its item (called "tiles") into groups, ...

The first two fall under "taskbar enchancements," and the last is a nifty new virtual desktop manager. One of my biggest pet peeves in Windows is the management of the taskbar. First, I should be able to reorder the items in the taskbar. Enter Taskbar Shuffle, which allows you to simply drag-and-drop the items as you see fit. What a concept! Now even if I've got Photoshop lined up first (even ...

Okay, I have some OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) tendencies. One of them is that I like the first program on my taskbar to be Outlook, and the second one to be Firefox, and I want them that way all the time. Back, way back, when I was running Windows 2000, I had a utility that allowed me to move things around to the way I wanted them when I needed to. I can’t remember the name of that ...