Thursday, January 14, 2010

Hack your TaskBar: ALWAYS Group similar items

Have you ever noticed that when you have a lot of windows open, Windows starts grouping similar windows? Well, if you like that, you can make it happen more often! Heres how:

Open the registry by clicking start > Run, and typing regedit, follow by enter.

Then navigate to: HKEY_CURRRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced.


Then you’ll need to create a new DWORD (32-bit) value called TaskbarGroupSize there. A value of  "0" will disable the feature, while a larger numerical setting (2 or higher) will initiate the grouping when that number of similar windows is open. You can also use this if you want it to stop grouping them, just put a higher number, like 10 or 20. 

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