7+ Taskbar Tweaker
7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows you to configure various aspects of the Windows taskbar.
Most of the configuration options it provides can’t be tweaked using the taskbar properties or the registry.
The tweaker is designed for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.
Download
7tt_setup.exe (1.78 MB, changelog)
Latest version: v5.15.2
Note: The installer can be used to extract a portable version. Refer to the FAQ below for details.
Beta version
7tt_setup_beta.exe (1.78 MB, changelog)
Latest beta version: v5.15.2.2
More info about beta versions.
Windows 11 Support Status
- 7+ Taskbar Tweaker doesn’t support the Windows 11 taskbar, and probably never will. See this blog post for more details.
- Some of the tweaks are available in Windows 11 as Windhawk mods. See here for the list of mods, and vote for missing mods that you’d like to see implemented. Read more about Windhawk here.
- 7+ Taskbar Tweaker works on Windows 11 version 23H2 and older with the old taskbar which can be restored with third party tools. See this blog post for more details.
Demo video
Here is a video that demonstrates some of the tweaks:
Source code
https://github.com/m417z/7-Taskbar-Tweaker
FAQ
Q: Which registry keys does 7+ Taskbar Tweaker modify? I don't need extra processes in my system.
A: The only registry keys the tweaker modifies are its own settings. There are no registry keys for the options it provides. The tweaker does that by injecting a DLL to explorer, hooking/subclassing/some other methods of the dark side.
As for extra processes, the tweaker is a native program, and is very lightweight. It shouldn’t slow down your system, and uses an extremely small amount of memory. Also, you can hide the tray icon if you want.
In case you want to remove the tweaker's settings from the registry, look for them here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7 Taskbar Tweaker
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (7 Taskbar Tweaker value)
P.S. if you're a programmer, you might want to take a look at the 7+ Taskbar Tweaking Library.
Q: My antivirus complains about 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.
A: It's a false positive. I guarantee that the tweaker binaries (and any other files on this site, unless specifically noted) are 100% clean.
Also remember that the tweaker injects into explorer and modifies its memory, which is indeed suspicious.
Q: Can I Group/Combine/Label only some of the items on the taskbar?
A: Yes, use Taskbar Inspector.
Q: May I use 7+ Taskbar Tweaker in a commercial environment?
A: Yes, feel free to use it wherever you want.
Q: Where is the portable version?
A: When installing the tweaker, choose the Portable type of install, as shown on the image below.
The portable version will be extracted to the selected folder.
Note: If the tweaker is already installed on your computer, the option won't be visible. You can launch the setup with the /portable command line switch to force a portable installation.
Q: I want to report a bug/suggest a feature! What is the best way to do it?
A: Post it on the UserEcho page.
Q: I want to translate 7+ Taskbar Tweaker to my language.
A: The archive below contains the files needed to be translated.
Please read readme.txt before proceeding.
7tt_translate.zip (758.63 kB)
If you are brave enough to translate the help file, contact me for the required software and files.
Tags: 7+ taskbar tweaker
I have sometimes wrong order of icons after reboot. I make “log off – log on” to become right order. Maybe problem is in the tweaker?
What do you mean? When you reboot, the taskbar is usually empty, except for pinned items, no?
Problem is exactly in “pinned items”.
How I can add a screenschot? I can show this problem.
Upload it somewhere (e.g. http://imgur.com/ or http://snag.gy/) and post a link.
Right order http://i.imgur.com/KNSiPmu.png
OS http://imgur.com/RAVcLFn
Settings http://imgur.com/SfhjmI1
I can’t show a image with wrong order, because it don’t happens every day.
Could it be that one of your startup programs creates a taskbar button, and then removes it right away?
Thank you for help! I will check it.
When will 7+ taskbar tweaker be free for windows 10 tech preview?
I don’t have a release date for a public beta/final version.
What I can surely say is that the final version will not support Windows 10 until an RTM version is available.
This is a beautiful and very useful application. Helps me a lot to organize my work.
Big thanks, RaMMicHael!
I’m trying to figure out a visual issue with the tray bar on Windows 8.1 x64.
Randomly (never caught that moment) or after clicking some tray icon, some *other* tray icon takes a “clicked” state and doesn’t return to normal until I click it individually.
I have around 15 tray icons, they all set to “always show”. With 7tt I’m using an option for accessing volume tool with mouse scroll from tray bar.
I think this issue started after I upgraded to 7tt+ v4.5.5. But not 100% sure – I’ll try to work without 7tt (would be quite uncomfortable) and see if it’s still there.
Up until now I was having this issue at least 2-3 times every day.
I’m not familiar with the issue. Please tell me if you find a way to reproduce it, as well as whether is happens without the tweaker, too.
Occasionally, not sure when (perhaps after coming out of hibernation), 7? crashes.
Are you using Windows 7?
Sounds like this bug:
http://tweaker.userecho.com/topic/382920-after-waking-up-from-sleep-or-hibernation-7tt-often-crashes-windows-7-professional-64-bit-sp1/
Thanks for the reply; I have left a comment on the other thread. In summary, I am using Win/7, I don’t restart very often, and use hibernation not sleeping. I have only seen the problem a couple of times since starting to use the product around the end of Aug, 2014.
I left a reply on UserEcho.
P.S. I recommend you to register there, to receive notifications about replies.
Having problem with tweaker.userecho.com registration: After I entered username and email address, it sent email with link to click to reset password, but does not send me to a page where I can manage a password. I now have an orphaned account there that I cannot manage. Can you check the site and see if the registration is working properly?
I replied here:
http://tweaker.userecho.com/topic/589903-tweaker-userecho-cannot-set-up-profile/
RaMMicHaeL,
Thank you so much for the great software!
I just had a question, probably silly, but I thought I would ask since I haven’t messed around with the Taskbar Inspector much.
Are settings made through the Taskbar Inspector saved between sessions at all i.e. remembered when reopening windows/software or even when restarting Windows?
Much appreciated 🙂
I see now that the changes are temporary and reopening for example those same folders/windows, they do revert back to their original grouping/combining rules.
I was just curious if there was a file that kept track of these as essentially preferences, but I imagine that could get a bit crazy to somehow track these preferences for all the different windows/apps one would open.
Thanks 🙂
Taskbar Inspector only remembers per-AppID settings, such as always/never group/combine. It doesn’t remember AppID changes to windows.
Also, please see my reply here:
http://tweaker.userecho.com/topic/178787-group-id-memory/
thanks very much RaMMicHaeL.
In W7 I cannot get drag_towards_desktop options to work with multiple Word-2007 instances. After clicking Apply for numeric options 1-6, I get the same behavior (or lack thereof) as W7 displays whith IE10 Tabs or multiple IE10 instance windows.
Two questions at this point — did you design these selections to work with Mouse Click & Drag OFF *and* Mouse Hover OFF? I use a trackball with these options turned ON all the time (medical hand/wrist problems), so some additional explication would be helpful to me.
Also … if you do decide to add Mouse Hover and Click & Drag features, I would be happy to Beta test them for you, and purchase same as a shareware upgrade.
I’m not sure I understand your problem and/or question.
The drag_towards_desktop advanced option of value 2, 3, 4 doesn’t work with combined items, if that’s what you’re asking.
Also, the option is not related to mouse hovering. It just replaces the jump list with a different action, such as minimizing the window or showing thumbnail preview.
Hello! I recently started getting an error when 7+Taskbar Tweaker loads (at Windows startup) saying “failed to load library 206”. I close the notification icon and after waiting for the system to finish booting I’ll start 7+TT again and usually it will start without the error. I wonder if anyone else is experiencing this error and if there is a fix yet? Thanks!
I believe that it’s a bug that was introduced in v4.5.5. It should be fixed in the most recent beta version, please try it.
Thanks, I’ll try that and see what happens.
By the way7TT is a great app!
Wow I really like your tool!
Hi there!
Is there a way to enable the scroll wheel to literally scroll through the pages of the task-bar, if you have more programs open then you have space to display them? Or an other equivalent to clicking the up/down buttons of that scroll thing?
If you have no such function, it would be amazing to see it in some future version.
Thanks!
luckydonald
Hi luckydonald,
Actually, there is such function 🙂
It’s the “multipage_wheel_scroll” advanced option. Please refer to the help file for more details.
holy sh* that was a fast reply!
I almost jumped backwards squeaking
Great, I found It!
So much thanks for that!
(Just gonna mention the broken link here too, just to be sure your great program is downloadable again soon.)
Also, your Download link ( http://rammichael.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2014/10/7tt_setup.exe ) seems broken (here in the website and on the auto-update dialog of the program).
Works for me on my local PC, as well as via a web proxy.
There was an issue with United Arab Emirates IPs:
http://tweaker.userecho.com/topic/306712-update-issue/
But according to your IP, you’re not from United Arab Emirates, so dunno.
Strange.
Then I will retry tomorrow,
when I got assigned a new IP.
Location is Germany btw.
Request
Wheel Down:
Maximized > Not Maximized > Minimized > Hide To Tray
WheelUp:
Minimized > Not Maximized > Maximized
Actually, it’s already implemented, apart from the tray icon.
See the “scroll_maximize_restore” advanced option.
Hi, I have a small request if you have the time to do so, I’ve noticed that when using the google chrome hangouts app, no matter how much I try I can’t combine them, unless I set the Taskbar buttons properties on the “Taskbar and Navigation Properties” to (Always combine, hide labels) and individually change every single app to show labels again with your great app. I always set it to (combine when taskbar is full). Thanks for such a great application!
Hi,
7+ Taskbar Tweaker doesn’t affect combining options when the “Combine when taskbar is full” setting is on. In this case, explorer decides whether to combine or not, depending on the available space on the taskbar.
You might want to try using the “Never combine” option, which might fit your needs better than “Always combine, hide labels”.
Hi,
Can you create a package for https://chocolatey.org ?
Or am i allowed to package 7+ Taskbar Tweaker into a Chocolatey package?
Hi,
I’m not familiar with Chocolatey, but I believe that it should be trivial, as 7+ Taskbar Tweaker uses the NSIS installer, which is quite popular.
Feel free to create a package.
uhm i already did that. waiting for moderation.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/7-taskbar-tweaker
package was approved.
In the Main Menu, I have “Middle click on empty space” set to Ctl+Alt+Tab. However, when I use it, what I get is the same behavior as Windows’ popular Alt+Tab function.
How is Ctl+Alt+Tab supposed to function, and how do I configure its proper behavior?
Ctl+Alt+Tab leaves the Alt+Tab mode on (like in keyboard). If it doesn’t for you, It is not proper.
Great, solved my annoying problem instantly. (OCD)
I’d like the thumbnails for a particular application to automatically sort by name. Currently the only way I can see to do this is manually via the “Taskbar Inspector” option. Every time a new thumbnail is created I have to re-sort which is a bit of pain. Is auto sorting all thumbnails or by application a feature you would consider adding?
That was requested before, but it’s not a trivial feature to implement, and unfortunately I don’t have much time at the moment to work on it. You might want to post your suggestion on UserEcho, so other people could vote for it and/or discuss it, and perhaps I’ll implement it one day.
http://tweaker.userecho.com/
I’m not sure but perhaps VistaSwitcher may be helpful for you.
http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html
Sorry, I just don’t get the gist of your reply. Are you saying that if Alt+Tab mode does not work, then use Ctl+Alt+Tab to implement it’s functionality?
Please, try Alt+Tab and Ctl+Alt+Tab on your keyboard first, and then try to figure out what it does in the Main Menu.
Aha!
Now I really do understand the differences. I like your Ctl+Alt+Tab hotkey better than Alt+Tab.
Many thanks for your tutoring on this issue. A modest contribution for your work will be in the mail shortly.
Thank you for the contribution, I really appreciate it!
And the one who replied to you above is Stamimail, not me. Thanks, Stamimail, for the explanation.
I was glad to help 🙂
Thanks for the application, all the credit goes to you, you deserve it.
Добрый вечер.
Сделайте, если не сложно, в расширенных параметрах пункт управления шириной свободного участка на месте выключенной кнопки пуск (при включенной соответствующей галке).
И еще такой вопрос: возможно ли как-то изменить стандартную ширину разделителя между разными панелями на панели задач?
Пояснительный рисунок: http://rghost.ru/59317993/image.png
Доброго времени суток.
Сделано. Попробуйте последнию бета версию, опция “no_start_btn_spacing”.
Hi,
I just want the taskbar to autohide and then appear on top of any open windows. Right now, if a window is maximized, when I move the mouse cursor to the bottom of the screen to open the taskbar, the taskbar won’t appear on top of a maximized program so I have to reduce the window to see the taskbar and open a window. Thanks.
Craig
Hi Craig,
That’s how it should work by default. Is this behavior related to 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, or does it work like this even when the tweaker is not running? Also, is the issue specific to some concrete window, or is it like this for every window/application?
Hi,
The taskbar won’t appear because it’s behind a window. It happens when 7+ Taskbar Tweaker isn’t running or when it’s running. I just tried it, and it’s showing up OK on top of the windows for all programs. It just started that behavior a few days ago. Before that, the taskbar always showed up on top of any windows. But for days it wouldn’t show up over Windows Live at least. Now today it’s working OK. I don’t know what to make of it.
Craig
I’m afraid that I can’t help you here. Unless you can come up with a way to reproduce the issue, I have no way to find out what causes it. If you have other taskbar tweaking utilities (such as Classic Shell), you might want to try and disable them.
Hi,
Thanks. You’ve been very conscientious in trying to help. We’ll see whether it’s straightened out.
Craig
This is a great little app!
Is there a way to extend/duplicate the taskbar to multiple displays?
Thanks
What Windows version are you using? In Windows 8 and later, multiple taskbars are supported by the system, but in Windows 7, the only way is to use a third party app (and then 7+ Taskbar Tweaker won’t work with the secondary taskbar).
Should’ve mentioned I’m on W7. Oh well.
Thanks
Hi,
Cool tool! I have a feature request, even it is not “directly” the taskbar.
Unfortunately the tweaker.userecho.com website does not work for me, so I place it here:
Office 2007 and 2010 has a absolutly different window frame, so the place where the windows caption is placed, is colored using skins, the window is round instead of a 90 degree corner etc.
Would be cool, if 7+ Tweaker could also hook this window to the “classic” style 🙂
regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
I’m sorry, but this is out of scope for 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.
Thank you !!! I like this app, but I wish that you can add some fuction to the emptyspace(Mouse Button Control) such as anology Press the shortcut key I can define (em…sorry for my bad english –!) . I just want to run firefox or something else when I click on the empty space of the task list…Anyway ,thank you for this app.
Hey…..I downloaded and installed the Tweaker. Good software…..BUT, I was looking for a way to fix what might be a bug regarding keeping the taskbar “always on top”. After installing the new Skype and RealPlayer Cloud, one of those two installations resulted in my taskbar behaving strangely. I prefer keeping the taskbar on top, but now instead of seeing thumbnails of open windows, I only see the tooltip text, and have to click on the taskbar itself to return focus. Really inconvenient. Was wondering if there’s a way to return my taskbar to its previous state with Taskbar Tweaker?
I’m not sure I understand what the issue is. Also, did you find out what causes it? Skype? RealPlayer Cloud? The tweaker?
A screenshot that illustrates your issue might help.
Well, after much stressing over this issue, I uninstalled RealPlayer Cloud and the taskbar seems to be back to how I liked it. Apparently, RealPlayer Cloud installs this “button” that auto-hides just like the taskbar would (if you have auto-hide selected) which stays on the top of the screen and makes it easier (supposedly) to download videos from YouTube. But it must have take priority over my taskbar, and also the Google Desktop sidebar, because neither of those behaved properly until I uninstalled RealPlayer Cloud. Too bad….I liked using RealPlayer, but it looks like they have gone full-out with this stupid “Cloud” version that includes web-based file storage/sharing. Thanks for the support anyway! But I was going to point out that the Tweaker software still does not have an “always on top” setting for the taskbar. That may have solved my issue so that I could be using RealPlayer and still have my taskbar do what I want it to do.
The taskbar should be always on top by default, and the tweaker has an option to make it non-always on top.
Perhaps that button of RealPlayer is always on top too, and thus it conflicts with the taskbar. I think you’d best report it to the RealPlayer guys.
I think that’s exactly what it is. I did report it on the RealPlayer Cloud web site. I don’t know why they can’t leave a good thing alone. RealPlayer, RealDownloader & RealConverter worked quite well. Now they want to get in the game of having online file storage & sharing with this “cloud” version of the program and obviously did not test their new software for bugs or issues like this one. Looks like I won’t be using Real Anything until they fix this.
Hi RaMMicHaeL,
I absolutely love your program! I really can’t productively work on any PC without it. So, thanks for your work 🙂
Unfortunately, with the last update (or one before that), I have one issue:
– Gouped taskbar items mix their internal orded while I switch virtual desktops.
I use Dexpot v.1.6.14 b2439 as my virtual desktop manager, and it hasn’t been updated or modified in any way before the issue appeared.
What happens is as follows:
(sorry for accidental split-postig)
1. I open browser window #1, then #2, then #3, etc.
2. I switch to another virt.desktop, and do some work there for a while
3. I go back to the virt. desktop with my browser windows
Result: the order of the windows in a taskbar group is reversed (#3, #2, #1)
If i manually reaggange them, they usualy will get reversed again.
* The issue is not 100% reproducible on switch-switch scenario, usually some time delay is required. But it happens alsmost all the time, and makes s multitasking very confusing.
I hope you can give my some advise on a possible workaround, or maybe a fix in the next 7TT version.
Thanks!
Hi,
Thanks for the report. Replied here:
http://tweaker.userecho.com/topic/562309-gouped-taskbar-items-loose-their-internal-orded-while-switching-virtual-desktops/
In Windows 8.1, I’m not getting the classic right click menu. It works on Windows 7 though.
http://postimg.org/image/n1fd6htlb/
The classic right click menu is actually a feature of Windows. You can activate it by holding shift while right-clicking. The tweaker merely makes explorer think that you actually hold the shift button.
Please close the tweaker, and try right clicking a button with the shift key pressed. Does it work? If not, the tweaker is not the issue.
OK, I will try to clarify myself. In Windows 7, before I installed 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, without pressing Shift key, I’d get the new style menu but after I installed 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, I started to get the classic menu without having to press Shift key. Later, I installed 7+ Taskbar Tweaker on Windows 8 but it didn’t change the menu like it did for Windows 7. I quit 7+ Taskbar Tweaker and restarted my PC and made sure 7+ Taskbar Tweaker doesn’t run on start up. Then, when I press Shift, I get the classic menu so I believe it is a feature of Windows by itself but your program is simulating the Shift key. It would be great however, if 7+ Taskbar Tweaker could simulate this Shift for Windows 8 just like it does on Windows 7. My suggestion is that if possible, you just make it an option in the program that we can toggle or just update the code so it works for Windows 8 as well.
Thank you for the clarification.
I’m not sure what could cause it. In fact, you’re the first one to report this kind of issue. The option should work on Windows 8, as well as any other system from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 update 1.
Perhaps you have a conflicting app installed on your PC. Can you think of any additional app that modifies the taskbar, such as an alternative start menu program?
Hey there. I found the problem. Actually my settings in 7+TT was wrong. For the first option, I had “Jump list (default)” selected instead of “Standard window menu.” It’s a great program you have made by the way. It really helps me be more productive.
Hi
Thanks for your efforts in making Windows usable! I came to this page hoping to be able to simulate “uncheck Keep Taskbar on Top” so that it remains hidden behind a full screen app until bidden by the Win button or Ctrl+Esc. I’ve looked and looked but can’t see how I achieve that? I’m using Win 8.1.
Thanks
Hi,
You can use the “disable_topmost” advanced option. Please refer to the help file for more details.
Aha, that’s well hidden! I’ve set that to “2” to hide the taskbar under maximised apps and I notice that I have to press Ctrl+Esc or Win three times to get the taskbar/Classic Shell menu to resurface, instead of just the once. Just thought I’d mention it. Win+T works without fail though so that’s a workaround for now.
Thanks again for a great tool.
Perhaps that’s something that should be improved in Classic Shell. You might want to ask the Classic Shell developers. I have Windows 8.1 with a different Start Menu app, and seems like I don’t have this issue.
I’ve set the “disable_topmost” to “2”. Now, when I’m using a maximized app, the taskbar won’t show up. Ok. Great.
But if I press the Window key, the taskbar appears (as expected) but it remains on top again. The workaround is to restore the maximized app, and then re-maximize it again.
Is there a way to fix it?
Thanks.
Are you using Classic Shell, too?
No, I’m not.
By the way, I noticed that the taskbar is having different behaviors in different applications:
» Chrome: it’s working ok. If I press Ctrl-Esc, the taskbar show up and go away when I press Ctrl-Esc again.
» Windows Explorer: sometimes the taskbar remains on top after pressing Ctrl-Esc. Sometimes not.
» Photoshop CS6: taskbar becomes crazy. It’s always on top, even if I don’t press Ctrl-Esc. But it has only 1 pixel of height! Very weird!
Thanx again.
Which Windows version are you using?
Win 7 / 64 bits / Brazilian Portuguese
I could reproduce it with Windows Explorer. Please try the most recent beta version, v4.5.6.6.
As for Photoshop, as far as I know it uses a non-standard approach for windows creation, which can cause incompatibilities.
OH MY GOD this tool has all the options I’ve always wanted: reorder grouped items, remove that annoying taskbar items tooltip when not using thumbnails, hide the start button, control volume directly with the scroll, hide labels for specific programs… GENIUS! Thank you very much !
I am using Win 7. One thing I really miss is the ability to show the desktop when dragging and hovering a file over the empty taskbar. Any chance to add that please if its not a big hassle? (I know I can do the same over the show desktop notification button, but I want to hide that 😉 )
I’ll try to look at it when I have the chance.
Meanwhile, you might want to post it on UserEcho so it won’t get forgotten.
http://tweaker.userecho.com/
I shall do so. Thanx a lot for the reply. All the best.
1 bug report & 1 request
I’m on win7x64 latest updates
Bug
My taskbar snaps to left side of my screen. Every time I size it down to one column of icons it goes back to tick, two columned size after reebot or re-login (there is no moment after starting windows when it changes, windows starts with tick taskbar).
Request
When I check “squeeze pinned icons” option it doesn’t do that vertically, which for me who uses taskbar on left side of screen in vertical position might be useful two (I loved this option when my taskbar was on it’s original place) 🙂
Cheers
What do you mean by a “two columned size”? Could you provide a screenshot? Does it also happen when the tweaker is not running?
Adding support for the vertical taskbar (as well as adding more control to the gap of the horizontal taskbar) requires a different approach, which is more complicated. I might look at it one day, but currently it’s not planned.
Here is a link to screen shoot
http://postimg.org/image/94v22azkn/
On the left side is wide taskbar and on the right is narrow one. Every time I change it’s size to narrow it goes back to wide, with each reboot.
Aaa it’s a shame vertical support is not coming our way any time soon :/
I assume that you’re using the no_width_limit advanced option. If 7+ Taskbar Tweaker is set to run at startup, it should restore the taskbar width to the narrow configuration upon startup.
Could you post your taskbar options and taskbar properties? I’ll try to reproduce the issue.
Also, are you using other customization software, such as an alternative start menu?
http://s28.postimg.org/vybyugmjw/003.jpg
No, I don’t use any other software to modify my taskbar. 7+ tt has 99% of what I need 🙂
As for advanced option You mentioned: I have no idea if I’m using it or not. How can I check it?
I don’t really know how ms programming works on taskbar mechanics. One thing coming to my mind is that I enabled 7+ tt options and added it to startup when my taskbar was wide, meaby 7+ “hangs” on width set before it was lunched first time or linked to registry? It’s just my simple logic, but I try to remove 7+ tt from my laptop entirely and see if it work as I wont it to if I enable it on narrow taskbar.
Some additional info: I removed 7+ tt from computer entirely, including all registry stuff I found with regEdit. Guess what? 😉 Now I can’t make taskbar narrow in vertical mode! Haha, it turns out You can’t do it by default. In vertical mode you will always be restricted to “wide” width as minimum width.
But it got me thinking and I wanted to check something. I downloaded newest version of 7+ tt and run it as portable application. Only option I checked and used was “hide the Start button”. And as I thought, now I can narrow taskbar down to one column, narrow size. It seems that by removing start button You can go down with width but windows it self will bring it back to default “minimum” width on startup.
My question is: can You rape windows so it would stop doing it?
OK, that makes things clearer. 7+ Taskbar Tweaker has a so-called advanced option to do exactly what you want. Right click on the tray icon, open advanced options, and set “no_width_limit” to 1. Click on help for more details.
At first I was sure that you’re using that option already, because you’ve said that you’re able to make the taskbar narrower. I didn’t think of the option to hide the start button, which allows that as well.
Yup, now it’s works like a charm, thx 🙂 And now I konw there is much more options 😉
Dear developer(s?) of this nice tool, dear RaMMicHaeL,
First I’d like to let you know that I love this utility. It’s absolutely genial! 🙂
But I suppose I found a little bug and I would love if you could fix it: I use the option Decombine on mouse hover. Now, when I have some (multiple!) opened explorer windows (if this is important: The explorer item is also pinned to the taskbar.) and move the mouse across them (beginning at the left of the taskbar and ending at the right of it), the items of the explorer windows shortly change to the standard explorer logo and then get back their right items, e.g. the symbol of Pictures Folder or Music Folder.
If you need to, you can see all my settings here: http://goo.gl/xrBWrM
The problem does not occur when there is only one opened explorer window.
I very would love if you could fix it!
(If my English is not so good, I would like to apologize; I’m afraid English is not my native language 🙁 )
Best regards,
Knorx
PS: I am from Germany, it would be very nice if the Advanced Options (OptionsEx) names like always_show_tumb_labels could also be translated! 🙂
If you give me more information about how to translate this (where is a lng file etc. ?), I also will do that myself.
Regards,
Knorx
Names like always_show_thumb_labels are identifiers, and cannot be translated. The text of the help file, on the other hand, can, and is in fact partially translated to German, as well as a couple of other languages.
Isn’t it possible to give the identifiers tooltips in German or something like that, who describe the function of the identifiers? This would be much more handy! 🙂
It’s possible, as well as another improvements to the advanced options interface, but that requires some work, and currently is not planned. Also, as these are advanced options, and they usually get configured only once, I think that what we have now is good enough.
OK, you’re right … 🙂
Hi,
I could not reproduce the issue, but from your description, it seems more like an issue of explorer/the taskbar rather than of of the tweaker. The tweaker doesn’t change icons, it merely makes the taskbar to (de)combine the items.
Hi,
Thank you for your reply!
After installing a new windows os (windows 7) and installing 7+Tt there, I noticed the same problem. I made a video for you, trying to demonstrate the problem: http://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/coVn6YeUZl (unlisted)
The problem does not occurr when 7+Tt does not run!
Regards,
Knorx
Hmm, are you using the “Combine when taskbar is full” option in taskbar properties? If so, decombining options of the tweaker don’t work properly with it. Either switch to another option in the taskbar properties, or disable the “decombine on mouse hover” / “decombine active group” tweaker options.
Yes, I use “Combine when taskbar is full”. But that’s exactly what I want: Combine groups when the taskbar is full, and only combine what is not active!
Is there no possibility to solve this?
Currently it’s not possible, unfortunately. There’s a UserEcho topic about it:
http://tweaker.userecho.com/topic/179603-decombining-options-dont-work-as-expected-with-the-combine-when-taskbar-is-full-configuration/
Hm, that seems to be another problem.
Are the no workarounds without changing the settings? 🙂
It’s not exactly the same, but it has the same source limitation: the “Combine when taskbar is full” setting is not compatible with the tweaker decombining options.
Hi, I love 7+ Taskbar Tweaker to set advanced option no_width_limit. Unfortunatelly this option does not work in the multimonitor environment. It works on main monitor and does not on any secondary.
What do You think about fixing this ?
Hi,
I looked at it before, and it wasn’t trivial to add support for secondary monitors because the way of limiting the width is different for secondary taskbars. I might look at it again one day when I have some spare time.
Bug Report:
First off, amazing work – love the program.
I’m experiencing a particular bug whenever I bring my computer out of sleep/hibernation, I see this screen: http://i.imgur.com/SKvwVlt.png
Full crash log:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.exe
Application Version: 4.5.6.0
Application Timestamp: 5470c084
Fault Module Name: ole32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ce7b96f
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0003b090
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: a7aa
Additional Information 2: a7aa91f17ea749d42a4de3b390fa5b3d
Additional Information 3: a7aa
Additional Information 4: a7aa91f17ea749d42a4de3b390fa5b3d
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Thanks so much for this. The taskbar previews have been driving me nuts. I feel this wonderful peace over me now. 🙂
Hi,
Can you add a feature where we can combine certain items on the taskbar while keeping other items uncombined? I think this will be a very powerful feature if you can program it.
Regards,
John
Hi John,
Have you read the FAQ? Seems like this is what you’re looking for 😉
Dear god it’s amazing.
Love it.
Thanks!
want the multiple columned taskbar buttons for opened windows, (not pinned shortcut icons), like in this picture:
http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2010/november/taskbar_split.jpg
can your software do it?
Unfortunately not.
There’s a topic about it in UserEcho:
http://tweaker.userecho.com/topic/154279-windows-7-vertical-taskbar-with-mutiple-columns-like-in-xp/
Hello,
Nice program, i was wondering id there is a way to make the setting permanent.
I have been trying to get seconds on the 24hr clock and your software was the only thing i could find. The only thing it does not hold them when you shut down the software.
Thanks
Scott
Hi Scott,
Please read the FAQ above. In short, the tweaker must run for the settings to take place.
Существует ли старый вариант программы 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, работающий под операционной системой Windows 98 SE? Я не смог найти на твоем сайте, а также не с помощью Google. Хочу сортировать символы в Taskbar. Спасибо.
Нету. Как подсказывает название программы, 7+ Taskbar Tweaker с самого начала задумывалась для операционных систем Windows 7 и выше.
Спасибо, я понял. А известнa ли тебе подобная программа для Windows 98 в прошедшем? Если нет, то тоже не срашно.
Знаю, что есть программа Taskbar Shuffle, которая работает на Windows XP. Насчет Windows 98 не знаю.
Спасибо за весьма быстрый ответ. Буду искать с помощью Google. Для Windows XP тоже пригодится. Еще раз спасибо за помощь!
Еще раз я. 😉 Нашел Taskbar Shuffle. По описанию, версия 2.5 работает с ОС Windows 95 до Windows 7. Можно организовать порядок символов в Taskbar. Это точно то, что я хотел. Спасибо тебе за указание.
I looked for your tool because I wanted to have the good old “always on top” check box for the task bar (or whatever is serving the same purpose). after looking into it in more detail (GUI, manual, this response area) i feel like i am unable to locate the control element that realizes that function for me.
can you please tell me where the control element in question is located and how it is labeled? (sorry for asking such maybe really silly things – it is just not evident for me at all where to pull the desired lever at present.)
PS: quite nice tool indeed.
I’m not sure what you meant but maybe…
Help File > Advanced Options > OptionEx > disable_topmost
my problem was that the extended options are not available from the main settings window via a button. as the other two options of the tray icon were realized as a button i assumed anything is realized as a button in the main settings window.
proposals:
* add a button for the extended options to the main settings window
* add bottom right a button labeled “close window”
and as you are always call them registry settings (and provide a built-in list-based editor) you might also note in the help file for the curious the registry path of them. who ever wants to know it instantly, the settings are there:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7 Taskbar Tweaker\OptionsEx
Other registry settings are aside to this folder. Some people might be interested in that because they want to clone those settings to other user accounts on the same or on different machines.
thanks for your very helpful response. you made my day.
How can I reset actions I have taken for an application? To be more specific, I was trying to learn how to use the program, and for a set of notepad files that I have open, which the Task Inspector shows under something like {some registry key numbers}\notepad.exe, I chose options for Group, Combine, and Show Labels. Now they have a checkmark next to them because I have chosen something and I am now forced to continue using an option for each of those categories. I would like it to be how it was before I chose anything. I would like to reset those options to what they were prior to me doing anything. Is this possible?
Also, I don’t know if this is a Windows 8 thing or not, and I will be testing this out in a few days on a Windows 7 computer, but is it possible to have combined items appear as a list the way Windows XP does it?
Just click on the option with the checkbox, and it will be reset to default. For example, if you chose Group -> Never, choosing it again will clear the checkbox and remove your preference.
Hovering -> List, is that what you mean?
Thanks for the response. I didn’t realize all I had to do was choose the same option again to uncheck it.
By list, I mean what’s here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/75804-taskbar-list-thumbnail-previews-mode-change.html , the picture with the words below it that say “List Mode”.
Can this be done with your program?
Yes, that’s it. Hovering -> List.
I’m not sure what setting it is, but
when I right-click a program in the Taskbar
I get the Context Menu:
Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize
Priority, Transparency, Close
– – – – – –
. . . except for Foxit Software’s,
Foxit Phantom Business PDF
in which case, nothing appears
– – – – – –
If I exit 7+TT, and then right-click on Foxit Phantom,
I get the Jump List there, and on the other programs:
Recent, program, Pin, Close
– – – – – –
Any idea how I can get the Context Menu to show
on Foxit Phantom? ty.
Seems like you’re using the “Standard window menu” option, and seems like your program, Foxit Phantom, doesn’t support it.
You can either disable this option, or ask the program authors to fix the issue.
Hi! Yes, that’s what it looks like.
Is it easy to support the “Standard window menu” option? You’d think it would be supported by default. I wonder why it isn’t.
Is there any info I could provide to them that would help? Thanks again.
Looks like it’s an issue specific to their program. The classic menu itself is not a feature of the tweaker, it’s built into Windows. You can use it without the tweaker too, by holding the shift key while right-clicking.
Just ask the program authors.
Using Win 8.1
Hey,
i just downloaded latest alpha for Windows 10.
Unfortunately it says that it cannot load the librarys (103).
Is it because i use the newest build of Win 10 (9926), which is not in your compatibility list?
Julian
Hi,
Yes, that’s the reason.
Ever since the new version 4.5.6 installed, I have been having issues with the Google Chrome icon in the task bar. Most of the time, it opens Chrome but immediately goes “grey”, i.e., it doesn’t keep Chrome live. If I click anywhere on Chrome again, everything works just fine. But sometimes, clicking on the Chrome icon works just fine – rare but it does happen. All of the other icons in the task bar work just fine – only Chrome has this issue. I presumed it was a Chrome issue, but they have been unable (unwilling?) to help. Any thoughts?
You can try previous versions, and see which version introduced your issue:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mcbychsh0xc1dvu/8-Lj2sg3NP
Also, check the Chrome AppID settings in Taskbar Inspector (screenshot).
Changing the Chrome AddID settings to Group = Never seems to have done the trick. Thank you.
Hi,
Where can I find more details about what changed in v4.5.6.7
Hi,
You can ask me 😉
Before v4.5.6.7, when the “Drag within/between groups using right mouse button” option was turned on, there was a bonus feature which was being enabled: while holding the right mouse button over a taskbar button and scrolling the moues wheel, the target’s AppId label displaying setting was changed.
Turns out that this bonus feature doesn’t work so well with advanced mice (e.g. Razer Gaming Mice), which have enhanced scrolling sensitivity. So starting from v4.5.6.7, this bonus feature is a separate advanced option.
WOW, this is another feature I’ve missed. 🙁
It’s nice feature, but works different than what we had talked about.. 🙂
1. This feature does: Always|Never, and I said it should be Temp (The chosen default behaviour of the app should be kept at next time I run the app).
2. It should affect not only the Labels but Combine too. (both Temp)
I hope you will have time for it some day.
Thank You
Well, this feature is very old. I think that it existed since the “Drag within/between groups using right mouse button” option was introduced, which is v2.0 (April 2011). Now, looking at the changelog, I can confirm my assumption 🙂
You can achieve that by creating a temporary group. You can do that by dragging a taskbar button out of the taskbar with the right mouse button, or by changing the AppId of the button(s) using Taskbar Inspector.
Thank You. I hope it is written somewhere in the Help File or/and in a tooltip, so pepole can be aware of it. Do magic by customizable shortcuts (like in the Advanced Options), always better for me.
It was until v4.5.6.7.
http://i.imgur.com/1nyKYpA.png
Now it’s documented in the appropriate advanced option.