Multiple instances in task bar

  • Thread starter Thread starter Don Culp
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Don Culp

When some programs have multiple windows open, each window instance is shown
in the task bar and also when doing Alt+Tab. For example, this occurs for
Excel 2003 and Acrobat Reader 8. Is there any way to prevent this so that
only a single instance is shown for each program, regardless of how many
windows it has open?

Thanks,
Don Culp
 
Right click on the star button > Properties > On the Taskbar tab put a check
mark on "Group similar taskbar buttons
 
Rey --

This is already checked.

Rey Santos said:
Right click on the star button > Properties > On the Taskbar tab put a
check
mark on "Group similar taskbar buttons
Click to expand...
 
If you’re an advanced user and know your way around the Windows Registry you
can create the necessary value yourself. You’ll need to navigate to this
location:

HKEY_CURRRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Explorer \ Advanced

On the Edit menu > New > DWORD Value > Name it TaskbarGroupSize. Edit menu >
Modify > On the Data Value type 2 or higher. Grouping will initiate the when
that number of similar windows is open. Avalue of 0 will disable grouping.
 
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