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Posted on June 17th, 2010.
Hello RaMMicHaeL,
I’m using your great tool “7 Taskbar Tweaker” for over 3 month now. Everythings works fine till today. Actually my antivirus (Avira AntiVir Premium) reports your tool as malware. Another tool (Threatfire) does the same.
Can I furthermore trust your tool?
Kind Regards
Daniel
Hi Daniel,
I’ve checked it out on VirusTotal (link), and it seems like you are right.
I, meanwhile, can guarantee that the tweaker binaries (and any other files on this site, unless specifically noted) are 100% clean.
Also, TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen3 means a general detect, no something specific. Avira probably does not like the fact that the tweaker injects into explorer, which is something regular programs don’t usually do.
I’ll send them a letter and ask them to whitelist the tweaker.
Cheers.
Hi Leah,
I got the same thing with AVG 2011. You might want to ask them to whitelist you too.
Love the app BTW. Every time I middle-click an app in the taskbar to close it, I think of donating a couple of bucks for your effort. Let me buy you a beer (or coffee or whatever). Do you have a paypal account for donations?
Cheers,
Ric
Hi,
I use the free version of Avira and it never reported your “7 Taskbar Tweaker” tool as a threat or a virus.
Regards,
Amer.
Hello. Language support do you think? Thanks.
Ram,
Help! Taskbar Tweaker is a great addition to Win 7 functionality. I have a problem though. About half of the time, the TT app works fine. But the other half of the time, the popup window sometimes freezes and won’t go away. It goes out of view when I click on one of the open apps in the list it goes to the background but the TT window doesn’t actually close (and doesn’t update when I open new apps or files in open apps. Any ideas? I can’t find any process to kill and my only fix when this happens is to reboot.
You should have written this as a comment to 7 Taskbar Tweaker.
Anyway, I need a way to reproduce it in order to be able to fix it.
Great taskbar tweaker! I have one question: Would it be able to add custom hotkeys for closing programs? For example I’d like ctrl+left click to close programs as I occasionally use the middle click as it works as default.
I don’t think so. If you occasionally close programs with middle click, use the right click menu.
Hi there, Rmmichael . I’m Huy and I am having promblem to decode some file (.dat) of LF2 CE (Combined Effort). Do you have any software to read it. Please let me know !
Heh 🙂
Just in case you didn’t know, these .dat files were locked by me, so I’m not going to provide a way to read them.
dude, add a donate button somewhere
I don’t have paypal, it’s not too popular in my country…
How exactly did you go about doing, this, making 7TT wait for Explorer injection, and what exactly does injection of Explorer mean?
There are some other applications launching at startup, on my apparently too fast computer, that can give errors the way 7TT used to.
Thanks
MainTrane
doh! I meant initialize, not injection. How/what does Explorer initialize and how do you monitor it to make sure that it has completed?
I use the WaitForInputIdle WinAPI function.
Thanks!
You’re help is really appreciated.
Hey Rammichael,
first of all, thanks for such an useful application. However, I have one specific suggestion:
How about adding an option, so that one need to double-click an taskbar icon in order to open it (what I mean is the first start of an taskbar application). Since I have about 15 icons in my taskbar, sometimes I mistakenly click a wrong icon which then starts an application I did not want to open. If it would only be possible to open an taskbar application via double-click, this problem would vanish.
I hope I am not the only one desiring this feature. regards
Yeah, it was already requested before.
http://tweaker.uservoice.com/forums/73857-general/suggestions/1250869
I’ll consider it for next version.
Hi!
I’m Ludo, from Argentina.
In first place, thank you very much for this great customization tool! It’s just great.
I’ve searched this since Windows 7 appears, but I couldn’t find anything like that.
I’ve have an idea, but it seems impossible to do with a tweaking tool, please take a look at it here: http://ludomatico.deviantart.com/art/Windows-8-Taskbar-Concept-201760737?q=gallery%3Aludomatico%2F25792352&qo=10
I would like to tweak the size of the pinned icons so it can be viewed at 24 x 24 pixels (Medium size), but Windows 7 only shows it Big (32 px) or Small (16px)
I’m fascinated that you made a tweaker to reduce the space between pinned icons, but, I just want to know if you can add a setting to resize the icons to 24 x 24 px as well.
Please let me know,
Thank you!!
I don’t think it’s a good idea. 24×24 is not a very standard resolution for icons, and many applications lacks these. Most have 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, and maybe 256×256. For that reason, most of the 24×24 icons would be just a resize of the 48×48 icons, which doesn’t look too good.
I’m making a suggestion, and I know what your’re meaning… but: Is it not worth to try this configuration too?
For example, if you try to set Icons 24 x 24 pixels on the desktop, each program icon shows just fine.
So, I would like to know if you can implement this anyway. If, setting this option, makes the icons looks bad, I will just back to 32 x 32 pixels…
It does not worth the spent hours, if you ask me.
Ok. Thank you anyway!
Cheers,
Ludo.
Hello,
Win7 classic view + small icons + never combine taskbar items.
Do left mouse click on a taskbar item and keeping the mouse pressed move it up from the taskbar => Task list appear.
Please add a setting to 7TT to turn this off.
Thank you.
Hi, I’m trying to download 7TT from your website, but it’s not clear where to find the 64x version…
Where I can find it?
The installer contain both, and automatically installs the correct version.
UserVoice now has a (javascript widget) tab that can appear on your website.
This could get more people over to the 7TT UserVoice page.
Hy i found a page where u said u have a Qmacro 5.6 Crack on your Website.
http://ztage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1468
U still have it?
Nope, it was a while ago.
Hi,
there is an error in the newest version 2.1.6 (Win 7, 64-bit): When the taskbar is set to autohide, it cannot only be revealed when the mouse hits it in an area without icons. In the areas with application icons it just stays hidden, but the previews are shown. So somehow the new version blocks the revealing of the taskbar.
Since I don’t see any donate button allow me to say “Thank you” for 7tt. Really appreciate your good work, finally I can reorder taskbar windows even if they are the same application.
Hi
7 Taskbar Tweaker is awsome, but,
Have you developed a portable version?
It will be very interesting.
Thanks.
Hi,
What do you need it for?
The installer does not require administrator rights, and completely cleans all files and registry entries on uninstall.
I have recently been playing CE LF2 and I heard that you locked the data files, and NO-ONE seems to know what the **** Henry’s super is. I am considering suicide, and I know its supposed to be a secret but this is too much for someone like me.
Cheers,
Yours Legendarily,
Assasnin
(And random person I have no idea who is, watching me… staring)
Hi,
The right person to ask is Marshall (you can PM him here). I’m not too much involved in CE LF2, Marshall just asked me to lock the .dat files files, I did. It was a long time ago, though, so perhaps he won’t mind to tell you about the secret moves.
Also (Me again) WHY DO YOU BOTHER MAKING DATA FILES IF YOUR JUST GOING TO LOCK THEM, SO THAT NO-ONE ELSE CAN GET IN THERE -__- -__- -__- -__- -__-
Please answer my random comment,
Yours Legendarily,
Assasnin
(The Random Person is still watching)
Feature Request
Could you implement some sort of “Always on Top”?
Like PowerMenu: http://www.abstractpath.com/powermenu
But that one does not work for x64 I noticed. I had a program that worked also when you just right clicked on the caption / title bar of a program. That is the perfect solution.
Ahh. I found one that does work with x64, which uses context menu only: http://abdussamad.com/archives/108-Keeping-a-window-always-on-top.html
What are your ideas / possibilities? Regards.
Hey,
Is there any chance you could re-upload your Window Clippings patch? It’d be greatly appreciated.
I tried to email it to you, but delivery failed.
Thanks. Totally genial and lightweight program.
Your 7 Taskbar Tweaker is an amazing application. This has saved my life. Thank you!
Thank you for 7 taskbar tweaker. Those pop-ups were very annoying.
Hi RaMMicHaeL,
Thanks for 7 Taskbar Tweaker, great utility!
I am running 7TT Portable on Win 7 x64.
I have 14 open Win Explorer windows, grouped. When I drag an item to change the order in Taskbar Inspector, the order also is changed in my actual taskbar group. But when I use Sort Group Items in Taskbar Inspector, the sort occurs in the Inspector, but my taskbar group does not reflect the sort, which is what I expect (and want). And then once I do the Sort, any future drag in Taskbar Inspector is not reflected in my actual taskbar group.
Please clarify. Thanks.
Hi,
Sorry for the delayed reply. Group sorting was fixed in v4.0.
RaMMicHaeL.
Any chance you could add a ‘disable left click jumplists’? Its the worst feature of Win7 imo. And being thats its just a replication for the right click list I see no sue for it on deskptop pc. Ive had to slow down my mouse use over it significantly. Its a bane and makes me sorely miss WinXP with whatever bugs it had.
Hi,
Can you please send me the patch for Window Clippings 3, many thanks in advance.
-Mike
Sophos said there is CXweb/Pwned-A in the Installer. So I can’t download die Installer, because it’s blocked in the browser.
See also: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/viruses-and-spyware/CXweb~Pwned-A.aspx
Virustotal reports the installer is clean:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/10667dd1f32c73efe666b7d55e4b1c7a1ee0eab93698fcd7e1a2158a15c269c6/analysis/1346782637/
I don’t know why your Sophos reports an infection. Perhaps it’s caused by another infection you already have.
You might want to contact Sophos and ask them whether it’s a false positive:
https://secure2.sophos.com/en-us/support/contact-support/sample-submission.aspx
I’m sure it’s a false positive. Private I can download and install. Sophos is used at work. I thought it would be better the developer contact Sophos. But I will try.
Hi RaMMicHaeL,
I get a ‘Delivery Status Notification (Failure)’
when I sent a Dutch translation of 7tt (version 4.07) to your gmail-e-mailaddress.
Greeting from The Netherlands,
Frank
Hi Frank,
You can post it here, in the comments. Upload it to any server, like rapidshare.com.
RaMMicHaeL.
Hi RaMMicHaeL,
Can you help me in this problem?
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowspro-audiodevelopment/thread/bd8eef72-4cd8-43e5-b964-f8b8eff1218d
Solution found with HotkeyP. Thanks..
Hey, this tweak is AWESOME! Best in Windows 7. 🙂
I was just wondering if there is a way to sort of make the possibility for a user to add like a “separator” line so that windows can be organized on the taskbar at will.
Maybe this is impossible but just wondering.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Thanks!
D-
Thanks for the – 7 task bar tweaker – it is exactly what i need !! Thank you very much for making it !
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🙂
Hi RaMMicHaeL,
I made Ukrainian translation for your program 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.You can download files from the translation here: https://portal.bitcasa.com/send/0f94806ef9ef4eee448839a9f49d811e4dec7c91e3b7bdef691dd729cd1c217c/5dbbd7a13761f63a15e90600110620993807c36a7eb36cf9cdba4bf4dd0ad226
Thanks.
I’ve got your mail, but haven’t looked at it yet.
Ok, but look at the translation link that I gave you in the comments, not the one that sent in the mail He is the better.
Would there be a way to make Auto-Hide permanent until you hit the Windows key? I really need the extra screen space and having the Taskbar pop-up everytime I get close to it gets annoying.
Do you have a taskbar tweaker for the Windows XP?
No. You might want to try Taskbar Shuffle:
http://nerdcave.webs.com/
Hi. Would it be possible to add the ability to change the font type and color in Windows 8 taskbar tabs? The font is currently WHITE and I’d love to be able to change it to black and check out different font styles as well. Could you add these features?
Great app! Can you please add an option to change the font style and color in the windows desktop taskbar tabs? It’s currently white by default but I’d love to be able to make it black, for example.
I think it can be changed with themes.
Hi, RaMMicHaeL! Thank You for greate plugin. I’m have some problems with inline code – this patch for JMP it isn’t processed by the plugin.
MOV BYTE PTR SS:[450F8D],0E9
MOV BYTE PTR SS:[450F8E],5A
MOV BYTE PTR SS:[450F8F],61
MOV BYTE PTR SS:[450F90],2F
MOV BYTE PTR SS:[450F91],0
Please fix it if it possible, thanks.
Hi.
You’re referring to Multiline Ultimate Assembler, right?
The code above works fine for me, what error do you get?
Not error, but real bytes of the jmp at offset 450F8D is E95A612F00 after patching. Not problem with plugin with recalculating real jump’s like jmp 458987, but for instructions mov byte not recalculate pathed bytes for real jmp. For example:
MOV BYTE PTR SS:[450F8D],0E9
MOV BYTE PTR SS:[450F8E],5A
MOV BYTE PTR SS:[450F8F],24 – recalculated
MOV BYTE PTR SS:[450F90],2D – recalculated
MOV BYTE PTR SS:[450F91],0
Well, JMP uses a relative offset.
Try something like this:
LEA EAX,DWORD PTR [458987-450F8D-5] ; JMP target - command address - 5
MOV BYTE PTR [450F8D],0E9
MOV DWORD PTR [450F8E],EAX
Nice trick, works fine – 10x, RaMMicHaeL!!! Now I’m don’t need correct the bytes manually. Perfect!
Hi
I want to translate Persian version. but i didn’t found Persian in list.
what should i do?
Hi,
You’re talking about 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, right? See the last question of the FAQ here:
http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker#faq
Hi
For 7TT, is it possible to create custom combined groups? As in, you drag any taskbar item over another and it’ll combine, even if they are different applications. Similar to Opera and its behaviour with tabs. Also to have combined groups with labels shown by default.
Great program, thanks!
Hi,
Yes. Try the “Drag within/between groups using right mouse button” option.
Choose the “Never Combine” option from taskbar properties, then check “Combine grouped buttons” in the tweaker.
Hello,
I found your app very usefull. The one thing is missing in Win8 for me is lack of some commands accessible from context menu: “minimize to tray”, “always on top”, “resize window”, “priority”, “transparency in %” just like in PowerMenu for WinXP. Maybe you can add this functionality to taskbar tweaker or as a separete tool?
Best
Hi,
Doesn’t PowerMenu work on Windows 8? It works on Windows 7 (according to the comments on the main page), so I see no reason for it not to work on 8.
Also, there seem to be several alternatives available:
http://alternativeto.net/software/powermenu/
With PowerMenu there is a problem with “always on top” option, there is no resize option (however it is available with http://www.brianapps.net/sizer).
Other alternatives, eg. 4t Tray Minimizer Free – crashes Win8 with Rollup option, no icons and priority option.
None of the programs can add theese options to the “jump list” taskbar item context menu.
With your skills it would be much easier.
For now, I don’t plan such an application.
OK, thank you anyways 🙂
One issue I would like you to look at, in Windows 7, is:
If the task bar is on the left and I widen the task bar, let’s say two or three inches. The pinned items are lined up going down. This takes up a lot of space on the task bar. In Windows XP, the pinned items were next to each other.
Thanks,
Moe
This is not a trivial issue, and I don’t plan to look at it in the near future.
Nevertheless, there’s an open ticket in the tracker about it, so feel free to vote:
http://tweaker.userecho.com/topic/154279-windows-7-vertical-taskbar-with-mutiple-columns-like-in-xp/
Hi there,
great tweaker you’ve made, Michael! This sluggish W7 Taskbar behavior’s gone!
Thanks a lot
Dan
7+ Taskbar Tweaker v4.2.6
seconds on the tray clock.
This is excellent! Add the stealth mode for the program, that there was no icon in the system tray. (translate.google)
Hello, Just download 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, do i need run it every time windows start? I ask because when i reboot and open for example couple of explorer.exe it still show it in one group, for re enable it i need to run Tweaker and click Group by Application ID (because it still on Don’t group) and again click Don’t group, after this it works again. Is it way it should work or this is something with my system?
By default, 7+ Taskbar Tweaker sets itself to run at startup.
You can verify this by opening the Settings dialog and looking at the “Run at startup” checkbox. It should be checked.
That sounds wrong. Is the issue specific to the “Don’t group” option?
That sounds wrong. Is the issue specific to the “Don’t group” option? –
Yes. Actually i tried to follow your instructions on habrahabr to disassemble taskbar with ollydbg but i did it on Windows XP, i was interested to fix one bug, that hide “quick launch” bar every time windows restart, after couple of tries i abandon this idea, what i was able to achieve is that when you click “Show quick launch” in “Task Bar And Start menu Properties” it show additional “quick launch” bar with same icons, the more you click on “show quick launch” the more bars you get. After all i write program that run on start up and click on it using sendMessage(bla, bm_click, bala, bla); it works from time to time. But recently i saw that Windows 7 has not buggy quick launch and decided that i need to migrate on this OS, but this annoying group of similar icons is spoil all good fillings. Yes. But! All my experiments with olly lead me to one interesting conclusion, that after i press – “save changes to binary” they saves to next reboot, after it no my changes was in explorer.exe any more. So maybe the problem is that system override explorer each time?
Windows might restore the original file, but that shouldn’t be an issue with 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, as it patches the code in memory, without touching the file system.
I don’t know why you’re experiencing the issue, but you are the first to report it. I’m afraid I can’t help unless you find a way to reproduce it.
Will run Taskbar Tweaker on start of system and press radiobutton from my program not big deal. Thanks for interesting program anyway!
Just sent you a small donation (but forgot to put a comment there). Thanks for such a great utility! Excellent work, keep it up!
Thanks for your support!
Would you like me to put a message and/or your website link on the Recognition Wall?
Thanks for such a great utility and for making it widely available.
Cheers,
Hi, I just discovered Taskbar Tweaker and it’s awesome! Thank you, you killed several of my Win8 annoyances in one fell swoop. 🙂
Feature idea – possible to reduce the padding between icons in the notification area? Back in the WinXP days they were nice and compact with about 1px of padding between them. In Win7/8 it’s more like 8px, half the width of the icons themselves. This is a lot of wasted space and if possible would be a really nice feature, I think. 🙂
Anyway, thanks again for the great program!
Do you still remember lf2?
About it’s exe?
Can you please help me here http://www.lf-empire.de/forum/showthread.php?tid=8870
There ain’t any expert hex editors there at the moment.
Sorry, but I’m not into LF2 anymore.
I just started using your 7+ tool and have set the hovering to do nothing and pinned items require double click to open, and would like to have thumbnails open on a single left click, always and not only when they are combined. Can that be done?
Thanks =)
I’m afraid such option is not available.
Too bad, still, awesome tool!