Disable Taskbar Grouping In Vista

Vista tries to make the task bar less cluttered by grouping together icons of a similar type. For example, all your open Word documents will be grouped under a single button and all your open web sites will be grouped under a separate button. I personally like this feature since I tend to have numerous things open at once.

If you don’t like the way that Vista groups icons of the same type together, you can configure it to behave the way that previous version of Windows did. In other words, you can easily disable this feature.

Right click an area of empty space on your taskbar and click Properties. This brings up the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window. Remove the check beside the Group similar taskbar buttons and click OK. With this option disabled, Vista will no longer groups similar icons.

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