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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Customization / September 2005Mouseover to expand grouped taskbar icons?
The grouping of task bar icons is a nice space-saving feature, but it invokes a penalty I can't live with: Accessing any item in a group/stack requires two mouse clicks instead of one. The way this should work is to expand taskbar groups when the mouse pointer is over them. Please, is there any way to make it do this, either with registry tweaks, or third-party software? -- Email reply: please remove one letter from each side of "@" Spammers are Scammers. Exterminate them. Taskbar|Properties|Taskbar then uncheck the box for "Group similar taskbar buttons"  SignatureRegards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect The grouping of task bar icons is a nice space-saving feature, but it invokes a penalty I can't live with: Accessing any item in a group/stack requires two mouse clicks instead of one. The way this should work is to expand taskbar groups when the mouse pointer is over them. Please, is there any way to make it do this, either with registry tweaks, or third-party software? -- Email reply: please remove one letter from each side of "@" Spammers are Scammers. Exterminate them. >Taskbar|Properties|Taskbar then uncheck the box for "Group similar taskbar >buttons" That turns it off, and gives me the overcrowded taskbar again. I was asking for a way to use the grouping feature without the need to click to open each group. Ideally, a mouseover would expand a group, and if an item was then clicked or closed, the group would remain open until the cursor was moved off it. It should work just like an un-grouped bar, without the need for additional clicks. As it is now, I have to click to expand the group every time I need to access or close a window within it. As it is now, it's unusable, but I'd like to find a way to make it so. -- Email reply: please remove one letter from each side of "@" Spammers are Scammers. Exterminate them. Sorry there's no such option. It's one way or the other. I do like your idea though. SignatureRegards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect That turns it off, and gives me the overcrowded taskbar again. I was asking for a way to use the grouping feature without the need to click to open each group. Ideally, a mouseover would expand a group, and if an item was then clicked or closed, the group would remain open until the cursor was moved off it. It should work just like an un-grouped bar, without the need for additional clicks. As it is now, I have to click to expand the group every time I need to access or close a window within it. As it is now, it's unusable, but I'd like to find a way to make it so. -- Email reply: please remove one letter from each side of "@" Spammers are Scammers. Exterminate them. |
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