The bar displayed on a full edge of a GUI desktop that is used to launch, monitor and switch between running applications.
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Eclipse Icon issue in Windows 7 Taskbar
I was working with Eclipse.
In between I assigned .log file with Notepad++.
All of sudden, My eclipse icon got corrupted and when running Eclipse, I am seeing default [.exe] file symbol, which is ...
5
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1answer
257 views
Win Key + # beyond 9?
If I press the Win Key + a number I can switch to or open the program pinned to the task bar. This works up to 9. If I want to get beyond 9, and into the double digits what do I press?
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How to prevent an app from minimizing (Windows 7)
Is there a way, on Windows 7, to prevent a specific application from minimizing to the task bar & the system tray, even if the application itself doesn't support this feature?
Please note: I mean ...
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0answers
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How to default to opening all windows when clicking on the taskbar?
Recently, despaired by Skype's lack of a Ctrl-Tab function (switching between conversations) and focus being on contact search rather than the message text area, I reluctantly switched to the Compact ...
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0answers
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How can I make Windows 7 to NOT switch applications when I click on the current one? [duplicate]
When I accidentally click the icon of the current application (the one I am using now), Windows 7 switches me to the last application I have used.
It happens to me a lot because I tend to try and ...
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0answers
18 views
make desktop apps appear in left bar windows 8
I am annoyed by how to switch between programs in windows 8. To switch between desktop applications, you have to use the traditional taskbar and for metro apps you use the new multitasking-program ...
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1answer
15 views
PowerShell icon missing from taskbar
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
I installed PowerShell 3 by installing Window Management Framework 3.0 (Windows6.1-KB2506143-x64.msu)
Somehow the PowerShell icon has gone missing from the taskbar.
...
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0answers
24 views
Automatically move taskbar when rotating screen
I have a Windows 8 tablet-laptop combo with which I have an issue.
To save space, I keep my task bar at the left side of the screen. This is fine when using the device in landscape mode, but when I ...
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2answers
43 views
Prevent auto-hide setting from syncing across Windows 8 computers
Here's my situation
I play iRacing in windowed mode on my desktop, using all of my screen space, so I enable auto-hiding of my task bar to give me the bottom portion of my screen to the game
I then ...
4
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1answer
94 views
Tooltips shows up behind taskbar in Windows 7
Tooltips for taskbar icons in the hidden icons popup keep showing up behind the taskbar. For some of these, I can't see the tooltip at all. This makes it very difficult to differentiate between them.
...
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0answers
64 views
Windows 7: Windows randomly become “always on top”
Kind of a weird issue: Often while I'm using Windows 7 with multiple app windows, one or more of them will randomly become "always on top", not allowing me to access my taskbar below (it's set to ...
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2answers
50 views
Windows 7 taskbar looks weird
Does anyone know what happens to my windows 7 taskbar? It looks really weird.
I guess it might have something to do with Windows 7 Taskbar Tweaker that I have installed on my computer. I've been ...
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5answers
921 views
How can I restart my taskbar?
Occasionally the clock in the notification area of the taskbar stops working. If I hover over it I can see the analog clock view is correct but the digital readout is frozen. Today I tried to hide the ...
3
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1answer
58 views
How to display seconds in the taskbar clock?
Is it possible to get the Windows 7 taskbar clock to display the seconds, without having to install a utility?
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0answers
49 views
Can I automatically hide a program in the taskbar on startup?
I have a Windows application that I need to run on startup and keep running continually. It spawns a window, and I don't need that window open all the time. Rather than just minimize it, I wanted to ...
0
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0answers
19 views
Can I pin a specific profile to my taskbar?
I have several Google Chrome profiles which I use. I would like to be able to pin them to my taskbar in the same way I do other browsers. When I pin the open Chrome window to the browser, it does not ...
0
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1answer
28 views
Prevent applications from enabling taskbar autohide (Windows 7 x64)
Is there a posibility to prevent applications from setting autohide to taskbar?
GPedit prevention do not work for application (only for users from gui).
Most of the tested registry hacking do not work ...
0
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1answer
68 views
Can Windows 2008 R2 display a different taskbar icon for each open MMC snap-in?
When developing, I tend to have several MMC windows open, each with a different snap-in. Typically, I have:
BizTalk Server Administration Console
Event Viewer
Services
Certificates
In Windows ...
5
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2answers
227 views
Programmatically customize windows 8
Could I make the Windows 8 Start menu behave more like the task-bar? The functionality I have in mind is to automatically pin running applications to the left most group, and also to create that group ...
0
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1answer
207 views
Remove taskbar with registry in windows 7
I'm trying to permanently hide my taskbar. I'd rather not use a different shell or use software to do this for me, so editing the registry seemed a natural choice. Searching the web a bit, I found ...
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0answers
44 views
How to reduce the sensitivity of the auto-hiding feature for the Windows 8 Taskbar?
As it says in the title, I want to reduce the sensitivity of the auto-hiding feature for the Windows 8 taskbar. It currently "un-hides" as soon as the mouse touches the last column of pixels (column ...
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0answers
30 views
Make windows 7's grouped programs to be in the most recently used (MRU) order
Windows 7 groups programs together in the taskbar so that the user can access them using win+#. You can cycle through them by pressing the same # multiple times, but these programs are ordered in the ...
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2answers
158 views
How can I stop Windows Taskbar from hiding a focused application when I click the app's taskbar item? [duplicate]
Currently, on Windows, if you click an app in the taskbar, it is brought to the front of the desktop.
However, if the app is already at the front it is sent to the back of the desktop, i.e. hidden ...
2
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1answer
34 views
How to remove norton one icon next to start button on taskbar
I have recently installed Norton one and it installed Norton 360. It works OK but I now have a yellow "1" next to my start button!
How can I get rid of it while still keeping Norton 360 and Norton ...
0
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1answer
66 views
Can I get a Windows XP-like application taskbar in OS X?
I'm looking for a Windows-like taskbar application switcher in OS X.
I'm mainly looking for a Windows XP-like taskbar, not the app-icon taskbar that Windows 7 has by default.
Not, I hasten to add, ...
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2answers
149 views
Windows 7 task bar in auto-hide, hide again after notification
I have my windows 7 task bar in auto-hide.
When a program gets a notification (for example Skype gets a new message), the task bar pops up and the Skype button is orange.
What I would like to do is ...
0
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0answers
25 views
Possible to have taskbar in E17 with multiple rows?
Is it possible to make the taskbar in E17 use multiple rows, thus allowing for a larger number of open applications to fit?
I want to be able to have many, say, pdf documents open at the same time ...
3
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2answers
173 views
How to sort Windows 7 taskbar thumbnail previews?
Here is a screenshot of the list of windows I have stacked in my Windows 7 taskbar. This is just for Explorer, but similarly I have lots of stacked windows of other processes as well.
Currently ...
2
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1answer
112 views
Set horizontal/vertical taskbar edge position from command line?
Is there a way to set which edge the taskbar is laid out on (either horizontally or vertically to the top, bottom, left and right borders of the screen) via the command line?
Workarounds (like ...
1
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1answer
18 views
How do I display a number of buttons combined in taskbard under 1 group in Windows7- the same way as it was displayed in WindowsXP by default?
I want Win7 taskbar to display number of buttons combined under 1 group by the way it is done in WinXP by default - there is a number of buttons and then the name of group, while in Win7 there is only ...
1
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1answer
70 views
Windows 7 - Always use hover color in taskbar when window is active (like Ubuntu)
Is there a way to use the hover color whenever my app is open -- like on Ubuntu? (The rightmost is what I want whenever chrome is open)
Would make it significantly easier to see which ...
0
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1answer
74 views
Remove toolbar entry from taskbar's Toolbar menu
I tried several times through to uninstall the program which has this toolbar but the program seems to have a problem with Windows 8 so I removed it using REVO Uninstaller. Nevertheless, the entry ...
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0answers
101 views
Windows 8, pinning Downloads to the taskbar, with correct icon, etc
I'd like my Downloads folder pinned to the taskbar in Windows 8. Evidently this is not something they want you to do, so I had to look for a workaround. Currently I have something pinned with the name ...
0
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1answer
131 views
How to pin a user-specific instance of Google Chrome? [duplicate]
In Google Chrome, under Settings, I created an addition user. So there is First User and Dad. I'd like to pin 2 copies of Chrome to the taskbar, so that one opens Chrome with First User and the ...
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0answers
28 views
Windows 8 Taskbar - Hide labels, never combine [duplicate]
In Windows 7 I could get this this type of Taskbar by adding a string called MinWidth to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics and setting it to 54.
Can I do the same in Windows 8?
...
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2answers
133 views
Title of cmd windows (in task bar) [duplicate]
I often find myself end up with several cmd windows which I need to be open for several days at a time.
When I hover on the clumped cmd icon in task bar (in windows 7), it shows me something like ...
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2answers
118 views
Disappearing Taskbar & System Tray along with Black Rectangle on the Desktop?
On about three occasions, I have left my PC (Windows 7, 64 bit), only to return after half an hour to discover, that the taskbar & system tray at the bottom of the desktop has disappeared, ...
2
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0answers
134 views
Windows 8 multi-monitor notification area [duplicate]
Is there any way to allow the notification area to be displayed on both taskbars in a multimonitor configuration?
It's currently limited to only appearing on the primary monitor and there doesn't ...
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votes
1answer
220 views
Change Win7 taskbar position (overriding GPO, Registry Editor, Admin. Rights)
I run the computer center of my Faculty and the problem is that users manage to change the Win7 taskbar position. I don't really know how they do this as far as I have applied many group policies that ...
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1answer
99 views
Increase Windows 7 taskbar thumbnail size
Is there a way to increase the size of the mouse-over thumbnail size for Windows 7 task-bar items?
Ie, if I have multiple file explorers open and mouse-over them it would be nice to have larger, ...
4
votes
2answers
32 views
Win 7 taskbard do not apear after start
After I killed a virus in the PC and restarted it, everything works fine but the taskbar with the start menu and the icons in the desktop aren't apear.
I still can open and run everything from Task ...
2
votes
3answers
254 views
Launch programs from pinned taskbar custom icons
I've just followed a tutorial on how to customize icons in Windows 8 (see link below). However, when I open the program, it shows the default icon in the taskbar and not the changed icon. How do I get ...
0
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1answer
99 views
Why does the vertical space between desktop icons change when I toggle the auto hide property of the taskbar?
I recently changed the auto-hide property of of my taskbar from "On" to "Off". Doing so caused all the icons on my desktop to get rearranged. The icons were rearranged in such a way as to clear out ...
0
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0answers
101 views
Show number of unread emails in taskbar
Is there a way to show the number of unread emails in MS Outlook 2007 when it is minimized to the taskbar (the way gmail does)?
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0answers
45 views
Changes in windows 7 do not save to hard drive?
This is kind of weird behavior: I pin an application to my taskbar. About 5 minutes later I get a bsod. When I reboot, the icon that I pinned to the taskbar is unpinned. Do these changes - to the ...
0
votes
1answer
133 views
Show Windows 8 Taskbar with Touch Screen
I have been searching for an answer for this for a while and have not found anything.
On Windows 8 with a touch screen, I have the task bar set to autohide (something I've preferred in Windows ...
1
vote
2answers
225 views
Unpinned Windows Explorer in Windows 8
I accidently unpinned the Windows Explorer icon on my desktop task bar in Windows 8 and cannot find any possible way to reverse this. What must I do to get Windows Explorer back?
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2answers
241 views
How can I duplicate Windows 7 task bar - WITH clock, notification, and start bar on extended desktop?
Windows 8 was a bust, enabled duplicate task bars but no notification area. I've tried UltraMon, and saw some other software but nothing actually duplicates the notification area on an extended ...
1
vote
1answer
141 views
Windows 7 missing icons and taskbar
We are running Windows 7 on a notebook. After logging in with one account (it has Admin rights), empty desktop appears, with no icons and no taskbar.
I can change desktop properties (e.g. Themes), I ...
5
votes
1answer
323 views
Is it possible to edit Windows 8 swipe actions?
I would like to edit edge swipes in Windows 8. Specifically, I want to swipe up to show the taskbar.
Is there any way to do this?
