Grouping programs in taskbar

NachT · 5 Sep 2008 at 13:52

I'm running a few things on my computer that are cluttering up the bar at the bottom of my screen. Is it possible, with a program or another way, to group them all together or move them into 1 icon in the task bar?

Say that to 1 icon, or any other ways to tidy it up a bit?

I've got 4 cmd box's running, would be great to have them moved away somewhere

UKDTweak · 5 Sep 2008 at 13:54

Right click on the Start button and click Properties/Taskbar and tick the "Group Similar Taskbar Buttons" option

NachT · 5 Sep 2008 at 14:46

UKDTweak said:
Right click on the Start button and click Properties/Taskbar and tick the "Group Similar Taskbar Buttons" option

Tried this and it didn't work, it works for msn convo's browser windows though.

Is there a way to group items that are not similar ? Maybe I need some extra program ?

Pulse · 5 Sep 2008 at 14:49

If you don't need them to be in the task bar at all then maybe a process hider. Or try to find a program to remove the entries from the taskbar

Murney · 5 Sep 2008 at 14:52

http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/21932/

Use at your own risk as I've not tried this. And I think this is for Vista.

johns-andy · 5 Sep 2008 at 15:40

post and let us no how it goes, im quiet intrested in this.

NachT · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:01

Found some freeware programs over at http://www.prospector.cz/Freeware/Desktop-enhancements/Tray-tools/

Some nice ones there

LeperousDust · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:17

Or use xNeat windows manager, it adds loads to the default behaviour, i can't go without it now!

Middle click closes, you can move things around, high show windows send anything to the tray change process priority of windows/programs, make anything stay on top or semi transparent etc... Tonnes of features that windows should already have!