Comments on: Change Order Of Windows Taskbar Items

By: Arrow FTG

Arrow FTG — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:11:48 +0000

Wow. I was trying to get Windows to let me do this for a while now. This program is awesome.

By: lylejk

lylejk — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:37:09 +0000

I agree; this feature should have been implemented by Uncle Bill (he’s retired now of course; RIGHT!). :)

By: cai

cai — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:46:33 +0000

Very very useful…
It helps me organize myself at work and be more productive.

thanks a lot.

By: KarenD

KarenD — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:20:11 +0000

I just installed this and love it already.

By: KallAngo®

KallAngo® — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:18:49 +0000

Hello All…

Pablo, you say “I just love to close multiple windows”

I like to show you that if you like to close multiple applications from taskbar at same time you can use a simple trick…

Just hold the “ctrl” key and clik on the windows that you want to close on taskbar – It will be selected just like when you select multiple files on Windows Explorer – then, clik with right buton and select the “Close group” option.

All selected windows will be closed…

I Think that install Taskix to use the midle button is easier but, I like to share this ctrl key trick.

Hope you like it…

By: matt

matt — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:31:58 +0000

I would use something like because I do some DJ type work that requires me to hop in and out of programs on my laptop every few minutes. Having to open programs in specific order to get the ordering I like is annoying, and I don’t like running programs that have 100’s of other features that I don’t use just to get this one bit of functionality

By: anonymuis

anonymuis — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:25:30 +0000

is there a similar program that can refresh the taskbar (to get rid of icons staying there even if the program has ended)?

By: Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:15:20 +0000

same voice for me, it’s very useful at work, thx

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:45:40 +0000

I love Taskbar Shuffle (thanks again for it, Martin).

I like certain order of windows, I like to move them. Some to the left and some to the right, and some in center.

You move things on your desk – why not on desktop?

By: garbanzo

garbanzo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:53:02 +0000

i used this at work where i can’t change the shell on my XP machine. i’m used to a very strict alt-tab order, and i get really frustrated when that changes. i always have a ‘personal’ firefox window first, then the ‘work’ firefox window. then Word, then my file manager. by keeping this order, i always i know how many times i have to alt-tab to get to whatever window i want without grabbing my mouse. and Taskix helps make that easy.

By: Benóný

Benóný — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:37:23 +0000

wow I just set it up! Fantastic… very useful :D

By: Amos

Amos — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:51:51 +0000

I work in an environment where I need more windows open a lot of the time than the task bar can display reasonably, even at the side of the screen (where they split into 2 columns and become unreadable).

As such, I need applications I’ll be using at one time to be in one place, but I hate grouped entries as I don’t want to have to shuffle through a menu to get the item I want.

Using Taskbar Shuffle (I read about Taskix on Lifehacker and didn’t see any reason to switch), I can keep all of my windows ordered and easy to get to. It has a minimal footprint and enables Windows to do a basic function it should be able to do anyway.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:51:49 +0000

Hi:
Well I use Taskbar shuffle only for the middle click close window option. I just love to close multiple windows without having to maximize them and click in the X, or right clicking in the taskbar and choosing close. Saves time.
Cheers

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:43:59 +0000

I’ll take a shot at this. For my self, rearranging the taskbar order helps with work flow and speeding myself up by forming habits.

For example, I like to move my IM windows to the far left, all grouped together and not inbetween applciations I am actually working on.

I may have a full screen Visual Studio window open and a browser window open that contains information on my task. After a half hour of going back and forth between these windows, I end up forming a habit when switching between them. If I then open two additional applications, accidentally close the browser and reopen it, my short term memory keeps wanting to go back to the original tab order on the task bar, which of course is no longer correct.

I’m not sure I explained this well, hopefully you’ll understand.