For years it’s driven me crazy that you can’t simply drag and drop the tabs in the windows taskbar. I like to have my browser and email tabs first, then other programs. A common problem for me is doing something that requires a restart of one of these programs (say, installing a new firefox extension), and then having to go kill all my other programs so that I can start things up in the right order. It’s hard to believe this functionality wasn’t built in to windows from the start, but anyway I finally got fed up today and found this great utility called Taskbar Shuffle on the web which does just what I need:
http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshufflev10.htm
It seems to do some tricks that raise the hackles of my anti-spyware software; the program itself claims to contain no malware and I did a little searching on the net to make sure no one was reporting otherwise, and didn’t see anything troubling. I’ve also submitted it to my security suite’s vendor for checking just in case, but I went ahead and installed it (trust, but verify).
Good solution, but way too complicated. I just cut my taskbar up with a scissors, reordered it and put it back together with crazy glue. Computer won’t seem to turn on, but once it does this should work like a charm.
it´s just incredible how windows does not have this feature build in!
if you´re just a little more organized than a laundry bin, you should not be able to live without TBS…
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