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I need another taskbar!
Rend
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Hey guys, Rend here again asking for further help and advice to overclock my computing experience.
You may remember me from such threads as "Help me find software to create keyboard macros" in which you recommended to me Autohotkey, which has served my purposes perfectly. Now, I need something more.
My taskbar is a very busy place. I already have it expanded to two rows, but I find myself using some of the programs I have on that taskbar significantly more than others. To be clear, I'm talking about the part on the taskbar that allows me to switch focus between items, clicking on various folders and applications I have open to switch which are on top.
Ideally, and I'm not sure if I can do this with normal windows XP or not, I want another taskbar, or something similar (a floating, always-on-top panel) where I can click and drag items from my main taskbar onto the new taskbar, so it will have only the few items I use most often.
Or, as close as we can come to that.
You may remember me from such threads as "Help me find software to create keyboard macros" in which you recommended to me Autohotkey, which has served my purposes perfectly. Now, I need something more.
My taskbar is a very busy place. I already have it expanded to two rows, but I find myself using some of the programs I have on that taskbar significantly more than others. To be clear, I'm talking about the part on the taskbar that allows me to switch focus between items, clicking on various folders and applications I have open to switch which are on top.
Ideally, and I'm not sure if I can do this with normal windows XP or not, I want another taskbar, or something similar (a floating, always-on-top panel) where I can click and drag items from my main taskbar onto the new taskbar, so it will have only the few items I use most often.
Or, as close as we can come to that.
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx
You will have to disable 'shared desktops' for that feature.
Right now, for instance, I have a combination of 16 applications/folders/documents/etc open, 16 icons on my taskbar. In order to get to notepad++, where I edit my stuff, I need to find it among 16 other things. The problem is that they are not always in the same positions, I need to close, reopen, etc applications and folders all the time or else things would become unwieldy. So I always need to go looking for those things.
My aim is to have somewhere to put my important stuff so that it's easier and quicker to find.
I'm looking at the powertoys thing right now.
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Thanks for the recommendation, I'm definitely going to find a use for this, this thing is freakin' cool.
Also, I'll look at Taskix. And no, windows 7 probably is not an option. This is my work computer, and I don't particularly want to put in a request to switch over, it would be a huge hassle.
Again though, thanks for the recommendation there. That's a pretty neat utility, just not one I think I'd find myself using often.
I use taskbar shuffle in my current position in tech support where at any given time I have customer account programs running, multiple trouble shooting aids, chat windows, and of course penny-arcade, and it has made it hugely easy to get into habitually putting all of one type of one window in the same place every day. love it.
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thank you so much for mentioning this program; I've hated the taskbar's inability to act the same way browser tabs do for so long
also kudos to the programmers for calling the advanced options "bells and whistles (ding ding, toot toot)"
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Agreed, learn how to use Virtual Desktops.
Virtual Dimensions is very nice. So is Vern32 (but hard to find).
Another option that works well with virtual desktops is two or more monitors.
Virtual Desktops + Dual Screen + task bar expander = Super Productivity.