Microsoft Groupbar is a freeware application for windows xp that offers an enhanced window management capability. Groupbar does not need to be installed, just download the file and start GroupBar.exe. The tool automatically appears as a sidebar on the left of your screen but can be placed in the other three corners as well. The sidebar displays all running applications, you are free to sort them anyway you like.
This does not seem to be a great enhancement until now, groubar has one functionality that makes it a pretty usefull program. You can group applications, for instance firefox, an email client and your instant messenger. Once grouped together they can all be started / minimised at once from the sidebar. Great if you have certain applications that you do use together.
Groupbar remembers window positions and size of the tools which happens to be another nice feature. It is also possible to create snapshots of certain states. You can preview previous snapshots and restore your work state later. Snapshots are either temporary or permanent. Permanent snapshots can be created with the Create persistend snapshot function.
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Download of the Day: GroupBar window manager
Windows only: Windows manager GroupBar groups applications together and saves and restores Window states. With GroupBar, minimize, close and restore groups of multiple windows at once, like related programs – handy if you’ve got sets of windows assoc…
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[...] If you’re looking for an alternative for managing your windows, GroupBar, a free application designed for Windows XP is a good solution. This application makes it easy to group applications together.gHacks gives an example of grouping Firefox, an email client, and your instant messenger together. After they’ve been grouped together they can be started and minimized from the sidebar at once. This would be useful for those programs you use everyday like the ones mentioned, and the ones that you always use together. Groupbar doesn’t have to be installed, rather just download it and start GroupBar.exe. [...]
Quite a handy little thing.
Microsoft Groupbar is really a nice application. I added my favorite applications that I always start together and can start all with just one click.
Groupbar is great, even though it was made by MS :)
Actually sounds very interesting. I would imagine i would want to open dreamwever and fireworks at the same time. Not sure if I need another app for this though. Maybe for an office it would be nice to sae a few clicks for an employee to open evrything at once.
Then again how hard is it to click on an icon for the program you need?
Ill give it a try and check it out myself.
hey. I’d love to try it, but the download page no longer works. Does anybody have the EXE file to share?