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How does Vista 'group' icons on the taskbar?

 
 
Evan Platt
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      12-05-2006
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
 
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rblevow
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      03-03-2007

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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Niteinblue
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      03-22-2007
so it depends on how big the task bar is before it starts grouping them?

"rblevow" wrote:

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> 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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