Comments on: drag & drop windows taskbar buttons?

Question: drag & drop windows taskbar buttons?

masymas — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:00:12 -0800

Is there a program that allows me to drag and drop (reorder) the buttons in the XP taskbar? Something similar to the Firefox drag and drop for tabs?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:49:48 -0800

If you're actually referring to buttons on the taskbar (or more properly, icons embedded in toolbars), XP allows you to do this very thing out of the box. If you want to move the toolbars around, rightclick on the taskbar, deselect 'Lock the taskbar' and go to town.

If you're referrring to open windows represented by 'buttons' on the taskbar, your options are limited beyond selecting 'Group similar taskbar buttons' in the property sheet for the taskbar (rightclick-->properties).

If, as I suspect, you're referring to the system tray rather than the taskbar, you're out of luck, as far as I know.

Your question is unclear.

By: vanoakenfold

vanoakenfold — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:21:28 -0800

Have you actually tried moving them yet? You can do this on as early as Win98se as far as I know.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:01:32 -0800

TaskArrange

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:02:29 -0800

And for the record, no, I don't think you can do this on any version of windows out-of-the-box. He's not talking about the quick launch or the tray, he's talking about the actual windows in the task bar.

By: masymas

masymas — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:37:41 -0800

TaskArrange (thanks Rhomboid) does it, but I'd also like to drag/drop those buttons like one rearranges tabs in Firefox 1.5.

Here's a screenshot.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:15:29 -0800

A little Googling brought me to TaskBar++ on this page (stupid framesets). It's in japanese, but the animated screenshot is a universal language.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:17:06 -0800

Babelfish did a pretty good job translating the TaskBar++ page.

By: limeonaire

limeonaire — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:02:16 -0800

Wow—MeFi mindmeld! I was about to ask this very question just a couple days ago!

By: Pigpen

Pigpen — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:19:45 -0800

You can do this with Groupbar, which is a separate program. "GroupBar is a prototype for demonstrating the use of window-grouping features in an XP TaskBar-like interface. The window tiles in the GroupBar can be rearranged in any order or dragged and dropped into lightweight "groups" that allow one-click task-switching and convenient group operations." (from Microsoft's download page). Small & doesn't need to be installed, IIRC.

By: sysinfo

sysinfo — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:19:45 -0800

Just wanted to thank Plutor for TaskBar++, as I found it to be quite useful. It would be nice to reduce the alt-key delay, but it seems to do the job quite well.