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How to rearrange minimized window buttons in the Taskbar?

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Another feature that I believe Windows lacks by default – it does not allow us to move those buttons of minimized windows on the taskbar. But you can get this functionality by using a third party software.

Download Taskbar shuffle from here, install it and then move and arrange buttons on your taskbar – just by dragging and dropping ‘em.

Moving Window Buttons with Taskbar shuffle

Taskbar shuffle can also group windows based on application usage and number of windows.

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June 12th, 2007 at 11:37 am

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  • http://techyantra.net Beta3

    I always wanted to re-arrange windows like we can rearrange tabs in Firefox. Thanks a lot. Downloading…

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Welcome, Beta3.

  • http://tech4sure.blogspot.com/ Ashish Saini (Ashfame)

    hi Shankar!
    Can’t it be done without installing any thing?
    i mean through some tweak or hack!
    And what does this appy exactly do that it enables us to move buttons?

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    Ashfame: I don’t know of any registry hacks that can do this, but if I get to know of any, I’ll post it here for sure :) . Well, regarding what this app does exactly I dunno anything but the only thing I can tell you is that you can move those items just by dragging and dropping :D

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    Good application mate .

  • http://www.techbharat.com/rearrange-windows-taskbar-items/ TechBharat

    Rearrange Windows Taskbar Items…

    Even if you have an ‘unlocked’ taskbar, Microsoft Windows will not allow you to rearranged the minimized application windows to the order you want it. A feature to support this, will be useful on many occasions.

    Taskbar shuffle is an app…

  • http://daily-tech-news.blogspot.com/ Ramkarthik

    Good one friend. I have never tried to rearrange the minimized buttons. Let me check this software. It might come useful anytime.Thanks.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    RamKarthik: Most welcome :)

  • http://www.smartyblog.com Smarty Blog

    Since Firefox came out with the option to rearrange tabs through drag & drop I was wondering why the Microsoft guys didn’t think of it :) This is one great piece of software!

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    I’m glad you liked it, Smarty Blog.