Guest Weasel526 Posted September 7, 2001 Share Posted September 7, 2001 u know how when u open like 11 programs, it groups them into one neat little group thingy? Is there any way to reduce the number from 11 programs to something smaller, say 4 programs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakillernz Posted September 7, 2001 Share Posted September 7, 2001 That can be done using the TweakUI tool from the XP powertoys. You'll find it under Taskbar - Grouping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted September 7, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 7, 2001 This(look at the picture attached)... is what happen at neowin every morning.. Taskbar grouping sounds good ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Weasel526 Posted September 7, 2001 Share Posted September 7, 2001 lol, was that 'faked' or do u really surf with that many windows open? Is so, it might be time to invest in a new monitor, ur res looks a little dated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted September 7, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 7, 2001 lol, was that 'faked'What's the point? I'm not "look-at-me-i-am-so-l33t-cuz-i-faked-opening-10000000-windows" kind of person.do u really surf with that many windows open No, only every morning when I sweep through the un-readed post and I open each window for each post, it's more faster to read. it might be time to invest in a new monitor Why? I like my monitor, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to change and whenIf you're saying that judging from the picture quality, you're stupid, I purposely did that to shrink the size so that I can attache it since Neowin has attached file size limiting.:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeaR Posted September 7, 2001 Share Posted September 7, 2001 Dude you need Task Bar grouping bad :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjmUK Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 I agree, taskbar grouping is nice in WinXP. With your monitor - there's nothing wrong with loading up multiple windows...curious, how much memory do you have in your machine..? (just wondering as I bet all those windows eat it all up...hehehe). :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted September 8, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 8, 2001 how much memory do you have in your machine..?128MB PC-133I bet all those windows eat it all up Nope, they didn't, everything's still working fine.. Ofcause I'm not running photoshop or games or any other large memory consuming program.. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Frost Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 The way to change the taskbar grouping setting without using TweakUI is by running regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced and then set a DWORD value named 'TaskbarGroupSize' without the '' and set its value to whatever setting u want before grouping occurs ie- to start grouping after the fourth instance of a program is opened have the decimal value set to 4 to have it group as soon as another instance shows up set it to 2 so it always groups after that is set reboot the pc to make the change active NOTE: In case u don't already know, always make a backup of your registry before u attempt to modify it in case something goes wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjmUK Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 Thanks Jack, I tried this feature out and rebooted and it's great. I've set mine to the value of '2', that way each application is grouped together...:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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