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Status: Closed Points: 75 Time: 08:05 - May 24, 2007  

mary2

How do you move the positioning of taskbar buttons in Explorer?

If I have 5 programs open, sometimes I want to swap the positioning of the taskbar buttons on the windows taskbar so some programs are displayed before or after other programs and I can keep a consistent order. Is there any way to do this?

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nidhi

Date:: May 25, 2007

Time:: 06:46

Ive never seen a way round this bar closing and reopening windows.
The one trick I found to reverse your list of windows is to go to task manager to kill explorer.exe (all of them that are running). It should restart explorer then task bar items are reversed!

In terms of software you could try xneat or buttonboogie

nidhi

Date:: May 25, 2007

Time:: 06:52

sorry forgot the links

xneat http://www.xneat.com/windows_manager/ features a taskbar arranger. Note this is a free product

buttonboogie - I couldnt find a version compatable with windows xp. I assume u are running that
buttonboogie 2 - this version is xp compatable but a couple of sites I found are charging to download it. Just google it to see for yourself

taskbar manager http://www.askarya.com/tm/tm.asp - u gotta pay for this but its pretty cheap for a limited time, if u write a review u can get a copy free

mary2

Date:: May 25, 2007

Time:: 09:00

That is great information.

Thanks Nidhi

nidhi

Date:: May 25, 2007

Time:: 09:09

thanks. I have used taskbar manager and it does the job perfect.

Im unable to use xneat at the moment because I am behind a firewall. It seems when u use xneat, it connects to the net to register or something. I dont believe apps should do that automatically. Because it dont connect, the program refuses to run.

Unless u think xneat is okay, I am giving it so far 2 out of 5. I will try it when I get home.

mary2

Date:: May 25, 2007

Time:: 09:22

xneat did exactly what I needed it to do. That saves me a lot of headache

mary2

Date:: May 28, 2007

Time:: 05:24

I LOVE THIS TOOL!!!!

Just wanted to follow up and say that Xneat worked perfectly for this.

Thanks Nidhi

nidhi

Date:: May 28, 2007

Time:: 05:27

Glad u liked it. Its pretty cool and free!!! Just got a little worried initially as it needed a internet connection.

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mary2

Date:: May 28, 2007

Time:: 05:26

There is a free tool available that does exactly this:

Xneat

http://www.xneat.com/windows_manager/

This tool features a taskbar arranger and works perfectly to solve this functionality issue.


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