How does Vista 'group' icons on the taskbar?

So here I am looking for icons on my taskbar for running processes...

http://www.espphotography.com/grouping.jpg

What?

How did Vista decide to group those 5 applications under "Desktop"?

Makes it quite a bit harder to find a app on your taskbar...

This is RC1.

Evan

Vista does the same thing XP does. When the number of icons on the
taskbar passes some threshold that depends on the size of the task bar,
all instances fo the same program are grouped. As the number grows, the
grouping become more general.

To suppress grouping, right click on the taskbar. Uncheck "Lock the
Taskbar" if it is checked. Then left click on Properties. On the
Taskbar tab, uncheck "Group similar taskbar buttons".


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rblevow

so it depends on how big the task bar is before it starts grouping them?

"rblevow" wrote:

>
> Vista does the same thing XP does. When the number of icons on the
> taskbar passes some threshold that depends on the size of the task bar,
> all instances fo the same program are grouped. As the number grows, the
> grouping become more general.
>
> To suppress grouping, right click on the taskbar. Uncheck "Lock the
> Taskbar" if it is checked. Then left click on Properties. On the
> Taskbar tab, uncheck "Group similar taskbar buttons".
>
>
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> rblevow
>