Friday, October 13, 2006

Bringing the Task Manager to the front in the Task Bar





Just found a tweak that can change the ordering of task bar items to some extent, but this is pretty limited in use as it could only bring the Task Manager to front, there is no effect on other items.

In order to accomplish this first of all bring/open the Task Manager ( the usual ctrl-alt-del ) , this would appear at the last part of the task bar as shown in the before part of above figure. Now go to processes tab of Task Manager and kill( or end) the process called explorer.exe which should cause all the taskbar item to disappear ( don’t panic). Now go to application tab of Task Manager and create a new task called “explorer.exe” and the Task Manager item will come to the front of the Task Bar as shown in the After part of above figure.

Well this method does not have much utility, but that’s all I found. Looking to find some better method to rearrange the items according to user preferences and that certainly will have slightest impact on productivity if not sufficient.

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