Sometimes when working in Windows it happens that we open multiple explorer or application windows to complete a task at hand. With a lot of windows open it is always convenient if we have the option to group windows that are related to a single task or single program on the task bar. It could be easily achieved by drag & drop rearrange of taskbar buttons but unfortunately Windows do not provides the drag & drop rearranging of taskbar buttons for this kind of grouping.
TaskbarEx comes to rescue here as it is a freeware nice little utility that allows to rearrange taskbar buttons by a simple drag & drop operation of buttons. It should be helpful in arranging taskbar buttons in more logical manner. As a bonus it also provides some nice additional features such as window previews by hovering over a taskbar button without actually switching to that window similar to the one provided in Windows Vista but Windows XP has not this feature built-in. A user can also detach a taskbar button by simply dragging and dropping it to the desktop(they can also be reattached again). Also if you scroll up on a taskbar button using mouse wheel a minimized window is restored and on scrolling down a restored window is minimized again. Various options such as related to the detached buttons and tab preview window can be customized in preferences.
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Of course the key feature is rearranging of taskbar buttons but previewing of windows by hovering over the taskbar buttons and minimization and restoration of windows by a mouse wheel are also nice touches.
Official homepage as mentioned in the software seems to be down but you can still download it from here.
