Is there any way to hide taskbar labels and not combine taskbar buttons?
Problem
There are three options for customizing taskbar buttons in Windows 7: Always combine, hide labels Combine when taskbar is full Never combine Is there any way to hide labels and not combine taskbar buttons? Or even better, to exclude only certain applications from combining? My main problem is that I switch a lot between two instances of a single application, and having to hover over combined icon and then choosing the correct one. Alt-Tabbing is not a good alternative when I'm switching between more than three applications; clicking on taskbar only once is what I'm looking for.
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Fix for: Is there any way to hide taskbar labels and not combine taskbar buttons?
It's something of a hack job, but this might do the trick! It requires doing a bit of registry editing to shrink the taskbar icons so that the labels auto-hide. Set taskbar options Open Taskbar properties. In the "Taskbar Appearance" group, change the "Taskbar Button" option to "Never combine" if you don't want stacking. Adding/editing the registry entry Press Windows Key + R to open the run command Type int "regedit" (without quotes) and press OK Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\W…
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