Force grouping taskbar buttons together

[John]

Hi,

I have taskbar grouping of similar programs switced on, so that if I have a
lot of windows open they get grouped together.

However, is there a way to force group buttons together? So even if I only
have 3 windows open, and 2 of them are messenger buttons, can I group the
messenger buttons together manually?

Thanks!

 

[On the Bridge!]

taskbar shuffle has an option to change the number of taskbar buttons to
start grouping along with many other nice stuff
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/TaskbarShuffle.html

free of course

 

[Mark Veldhuis]

John brought next idea :

Hi,

I have taskbar grouping of similar programs switced on, so that if I have a
lot of windows open they get grouped together.

However, is there a way to force group buttons together? So even if I only
have 3 windows open, and 2 of them are messenger buttons, can I group the
messenger buttons together manually?

http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/features/article_1369372.php/Grouping_taskbar_buttons_in_Vista

 

[Keith Miller \(MVP\)]

In the registry, under:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

create an new REG_DWORD value named:

TaskbarGroupSize

and give it a value of 2.

 

[John]

None of those suggestions have solved it I'm afriad. Actually, I'm not sure
you can do what I'm trying to do, which is to manually group according to
user preference (rather than to universally say always group by 2/3/etc.)

oh well.

In the registry, under:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

create an new REG_DWORD value named:

TaskbarGroupSize

and give it a value of 2.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

Hi,

I have taskbar grouping of similar programs switced on, so that if I have
a
lot of windows open they get grouped together.

However, is there a way to force group buttons together? So even if I only
have 3 windows open, and 2 of them are messenger buttons, can I group the
messenger buttons together manually?

Thanks!

 

[On the Bridge!]

What I said works!

taskbar shuffle has an option to change the number of taskbar buttons to
start grouping along with many other nice stuff
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/TaskbarShuffle.html

free of course

after you install and run it, right click on its icon in the TRAY and set
the options~!

None of those suggestions have solved it I'm afriad. Actually, I'm not
sure
you can do what I'm trying to do, which is to manually group according to
user preference (rather than to universally say always group by 2/3/etc.)

oh well.

In the registry, under:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

create an new REG_DWORD value named:

TaskbarGroupSize

and give it a value of 2.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

Hi,

I have taskbar grouping of similar programs switced on, so that if I
have
a
lot of windows open they get grouped together.

However, is there a way to force group buttons together? So even if I
only
have 3 windows open, and 2 of them are messenger buttons, can I group
the
messenger buttons together manually?

Thanks!

 

[Keith Miller \(MVP\)]

Mis-read your question I guess. I know of no way to leave all items
separate & then manually group.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

None of those suggestions have solved it I'm afriad. Actually, I'm not
sure
you can do what I'm trying to do, which is to manually group according to
user preference (rather than to universally say always group by 2/3/etc.)

oh well.

In the registry, under:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

create an new REG_DWORD value named:

TaskbarGroupSize

and give it a value of 2.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

Hi,

I have taskbar grouping of similar programs switced on, so that if I
have
a
lot of windows open they get grouped together.

However, is there a way to force group buttons together? So even if I
only
have 3 windows open, and 2 of them are messenger buttons, can I group
the
messenger buttons together manually?

Thanks!

 

[On the Bridge!]

i read your post wrong also..

I have never seen a program that allows what you want.. and I have seen
millions of programs

None of those suggestions have solved it I'm afriad. Actually, I'm not
sure
you can do what I'm trying to do, which is to manually group according to
user preference (rather than to universally say always group by 2/3/etc.)

oh well.

In the registry, under:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

create an new REG_DWORD value named:

TaskbarGroupSize

and give it a value of 2.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

Hi,

I have taskbar grouping of similar programs switced on, so that if I
have
a
lot of windows open they get grouped together.

However, is there a way to force group buttons together? So even if I
only
have 3 windows open, and 2 of them are messenger buttons, can I group
the
messenger buttons together manually?

Thanks!