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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 5th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Windows Taskbar Software Taskix

Microsoft is aiding new features to the Windows 7 taskbar. One of the features is the ability to move taskbar items around on the taskbar easily. Not every user might find it useful to move taskbar items but it could be appreciated by users who want to make sure that certain programs and folders appear [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 3rd, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Multi-Monitor Taskbar

If you ever saw a dual-monitor or even multi-monitor setup under Windows you might have noticed that the Windows Taskbar is not expanding to the other connected monitors but stays locked on the main computer monitor. That taskbar will display all open folders and applications of all three computer monitors regardless on which monitor they [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 4th, 2008
  • Comments: 14

Change Order Of Windows Taskbar Items

To be honest I never quite understood why someone would want to change the order of the items that are displayed in the Windows Taskbar but I guess demand is there for a tool like Taskix which I discovered at Lifehacker today. Taskix is one of those lightweight applications that do not use lots of [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 22nd, 2008
  • Comments: 5

How to close multiple windows in the taskbar at once

New folders are always opened in a new window on my system because I think it’s a comfortable way to work with folders and windows. I never liked the default way of opening a new folder in the same window. This spawns a lot of windows when I navigate to a folder like the Firefox [...]

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Categories: Knowledge, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 1st, 2008
  • Comments: None

Autohide Windows like the Taskbar

You can automatically hide the taskbar in Windows so that it only becomes visible if you move your mouse over the area where it is hidden. This is extremely practical if you want to make most of your computer screen. Panel Hider [via Shellcity] takes that concept and provides the feature for any open window [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 10th, 2008
  • Comments: 35

Why my taskbar is on the right side of the screen

Moving the Windows taskbar from the bottom to the right side of the screen was probably the greatest layout change that I ever made or had to cope with since I started with Windows 95. The taskbar was at the bottom for more than ten years and one day I have decided to move it [...]

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Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Display Windows Taskbar only when key is pressed

It is possible to set the Windows Taskbar to autohide if the mouse is not in the area. It will automatically appear again if you move the mouse in the area of the taskbar. A user on the Donation Coder forum asked if there was a way to prevent this from happening and if it [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

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