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Sea.finn - 30 Oct 2006 03:36 GMT

When you have lots of one type of window open, they merge into one drop-down
style menu.
How do you make this the default style for all multiple windows?

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Alec S. - 30 Oct 2006 04:06 GMT

> When you have lots of one type of window open, they merge into one drop-down style menu.
> How do you make this the default style for all multiple windows?

If it's doing it for any, then that option is active and doing it for all; it's not selectively configurable. There are various
factors that decide whether a window belongs to a group or not, primarily based on the process. If a program creates a bunch of
windows of the same type, they will be grouped.

Are there specific windows that you were expecting to be grouped but aren't?

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Keith Miller MVP - 30 Oct 2006 19:29 GMT

There's this KB article which explains registry settings which can modify the grouping behavior:

How to Change the Behavior of Taskbar Grouping

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/q281628

If you don't want to edit the registry directly, you can download 'TweakUI', which allows you to
manipulate various settings not available thru the UI.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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> When you have lots of one type of window open, they merge into one drop-down
> style menu.
> How do you make this the default style for all multiple windows?

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Alec S. - 30 Oct 2006 19:50 GMT

> There's this KB article which explains registry settings which can modify the grouping behavior:
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> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

But it's still not possible to for example, group only Notepad windows, or only windows with "blah" in the title bar, etc.

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Keith Miller MVP - 31 Oct 2006 04:42 GMT

> But it's still not possible to for example, group only Notepad windows, or only windows with
> "blah" in the title bar, etc.

True, but I don't see that condition as part of the OP's question.

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Alec S. - 31 Oct 2006 05:02 GMT

> > But it's still not possible to for example, group only Notepad windows, or only windows with
> > "blah" in the title bar, etc.
>
> True, but I don't see that condition as part of the OP's question.

It could be, they indicated that they think it is enabled for some windows and want to enable it for all programs. That's why I
said that if it's enabled for one, it's enabled for everything and asked for more details.

They're probably just not getting triggered for some of the reasons indicated in the page you specified.

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