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While Windows 7 offers the nice feature of grouping programs and combining them into a stack, not everyone enjoys this. Some may want just the icons without the stacking feature. In other words, it's like having "Never combine, hide labels" or "Combine when full, hide labels" option. Alternatively you can use this to manually set how big you want the buttons to be. This will show you how to customize how wide you want your pinned taskbar icons.
There's a simple registry hack and settings change you can do to do this.
Set the options
- Open Taskbar properties.
- In the "Taskbar Appearance" group, change the "Taskbar Button" option to your liking. Select "Combine if full" if you still want stacking, "Never combine" if you don't want stacking. Note this hack won't work if you use "Always combine, hide labels".
- Press Windows Key + R to open the run command
- Type int "regedit" (without quotes) and press OK
- Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Control Panel -> Desktop -> WindowMetrics
- Find the "MinWidth" entry in the right pane.
- If "MinWidth" is not there, right click on an empty space and select New -> String Value. Name this entry "MinWidth" (without quotes)
- Double click on the MinWidth entry. If you want just the buttons to show, set this to 38 if you're using small buttons, 52 if you're using large buttons. Otherwise any value above 38 will work. If you set a value below 38, the buttons will behave oddly.
- Log off and log back in or restart to see the changes.
- Press Windows Key + R to open the run command
- Type int "regedit" (without quotes) and press OK
- Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Control Panel -> Desktop -> WindowMetrics
- Find the "MinWidth" entry and delete it.
- Log off and log back in or restart to see the changes.
A registry install script has been added for small or large icons and an uninstaller.
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