7+ Taskbar Tweaker
7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows you to configure various aspects of the Windows taskbar.
Most of the configuration options it provides can’t be tweaked using the taskbar properties or the registry.
The tweaker is designed for Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Download (portable installation available)
7tt_setup.exe (1.01 MB, changelog)
Available languages:
Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Demo video
Here is a video that demonstrates some of the tweaks:
FAQ
Q: Which registry keys does 7+ Taskbar Tweaker modify? I don’t need extra processes in my system.
A: The only registry keys the tweaker modifies are it’s own settings. There are no registry keys for the options it provides. The tweaker does that by injecting a DLL to explorer, hooking/subclassing/some other methods of the dark side.
As for extra processes, the tweaker is a native program, and is very lightweight. It shouldn’t slow down your system, and uses an extremely small amount of memory. Also, you can hide the tray icon if you want.
In case you want to remove the tweaker’s settings from the registry, look for them here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7 Taskbar Tweaker
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run (“7 Taskbar Tweaker” value)
Q: My antivirus complains about 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.
A: It’s a false positive. I guarantee that the tweaker binaries (and any other files on this site, unless specifically noted) are 100% clean. I reported it to AntiVir and they removed the detection: before, after.
Also remember that the tweaker injects into explorer and modifies it’s memory, which is indeed suspicious.
P.S.
Q: Can I use 7+ Taskbar Tweaker in a commercial environment?
A: Yes, feel free to use it wherever you want.
Q: Where is the portable version?
A: When installing the tweaker, choose the Portable type of install, as shown on the image below.
The portable version will be extracted to the selected folder.
Q: I want to report a bug/suggest a feature! What is the best way to do it?
A: Post it on the userecho page.
Q: I want to translate 7+ Taskbar Tweaker to my language.
A: The archive below contains the files needed to be translated.
Please read readme.txt before proceeding.
7tt_translate.rar (592.82 kB)
If you are brave enough to translate the help file, contact me for the required software and files.
Couple of ideas
Option to relocate show desktop button to the other end of the taskbar.
Option to add the Recycle Bin to the task bar – I’ve tried various ‘kludges’, but they don’t work for me, functionally or aesthetically. I would like to get it off my desktop and into the task bar, with the exactly the SAME functionality as it has on the desktop, but without the much of the functionality of a regular task bar item.
I just noticed that 7TT+ now ships a CHM – well done, I wish others would do the same.
PD
I see the new version has the option to display seconds in the tray clock. Since MS didn’t add it all these years I’m wondering if it causes a performance hit constantly updating the tray? Does the seconds field keep getting updated even when the tray is not visible, such as when the taskbar is hidden or a full-screen program is running? I know the program is very light otherwise, but just want to know if there are any disadvantages you know of to enabling the seconds display option.
Thanks for a fantastic program and the only options I’d like to see are the taskbar button numbering feature from your other utility combined into this so only one program can do it all, and the ability to auto save/load the state of the Taskbar Inspector so custom grouping can be accomplished quickly without manually repeating the same steps every time with the same set of programs.
Theoretically yes, after all it updates the clock every second instead of every minute.
I don’t think it would significantly affect performance on modern PCs, though.
I haven’t checked this. It behaves exactly as it did before, except the fact that it updates every second.
Try win7appid, which can bind shortcuts with Application IDs:
http://code.google.com/p/win7appid/
I did a quick check.
Seems like the clock updates even when a fullscreen app is open. That’s how the taskbar works.
Hi,
I find Taskbar Tweaker very useful. Thanks for a great program!
Just a suggestion for an update to existing functionality. Re behaviour when closing taskbar items from 7++.
Please compare:
1. Open and edit a document.
2. Focus another application on top.
3a. Close with middle button (or other tweaker shortcut?)
vs
3b. Close with right-click on taskbar item then with red x button.
3b brings application into focus prompting to save. 3a application is still hidden. 3a should match 3b?
This would make things much easier.
Take it or leave it.
Hi Chris,
Try v4.2.5.
Awesome, thanks!
Hello,
I have a suggestion. I’ve noticed that when I hold Alt + Tab or the Windows Key + Tab, the order of the windows in the tabbed menu are not in the same order that they appear on my taskbar. Therefore, if possible, it would be great if you could also make the order of the windows in the tabbed menu also appear in the same order that they do on the taskbar.
Thanks,
Brave
When I right-click the tray icon the options don’t have any underlined keys or keyboard accelerators defines, so for example I can’t right-click and quickly press ‘x’ to Exit. Can you add those in the next release?
Also, some keyboard shortcuts while in the program for things like quickly launching the Taskbar Inspector should be there I think. Something like Ctrl+T or maybe a function key will be really helpful.
Done.
Done: Alt+I.
I’ve added access key shortcuts to the other buttons as well.
There are better methods to open Taskbar Inspector, though, e.g.:
* Middle or double clicking the empty space of the taskbar.
* Left clicking the tray icon.
* And since v4.2.5, using a custom keyboard shortcut.
Excellent, I’m a big keyboard user so this is really helpful!
Have you ever considered accommodating users with multiple monitors by allowing 7+ Taskbar Tweaker to extend the taskbar to another monitor? If not, could you suggest any software that provides this functionality which would be compatible with yours?
Thanks for all the work you’ve done, this is one of the most actively updated, smoothest performing pieces of freeware I’ve ever used! Regardless of whether you decide to support multiple monitors I will be donating.
Adding multimonitor support is not as easy as “extending the taskbar to another monitor”.
Explorer was written with a single taskbar for a single monitor in mind, and making it work otherwise will require a lot of effort.
Most (all?) programs that provide extra taskbars for a multimonitor environment actually use a clone of the original taskbar, which only looks the same. And of course, the tweaker cannot work with these.
P.S. the above text applies to Windows 7. Windows 8 provides multiple taskbars for a multimonitor environment, and the tweaker can work with these.
Thanks for your reply. You make great points about the infeasibility of providing an extended taskbar. I had no idea Windows 8 could do that by default– good to know.
I have one other suggestion– I love the way the program updates; it’s nearly seamless, and the changelog is great! However, I tend to reorganize my Start Menu into categories and updates to 7+ Taskbar Tweaker will recreate the Start Menu folder in the top level of All Programs. Would it be possible for 7+ Taskbar Tweaker to first check if the default Start Menu folder exists or not before adding entries to the Start Menu?
Thanks again for the great work!
The setup creates the start menu shortcuts because you chose to do so the first time you ran it.
Checking for the folder and not updating the files if it exists seems like a bad idea to me, because they might be e.g. accidentally deleted or corrupt.
You can do one of the following:
* Uninstall the tweaker, and reinstall it with the Start Menu Shortcuts option unchecked. Settings will be kept unless you check the option to remove them.
* Change the behavior in the registry.
Branch:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7 Taskbar Tweaker
Name:
MementoSection_StartMenuLnk
Set it to 0 (DWORD).
Thx for the quick update. Now Sndvol Tooltip works without any problems. Everything is perfect. I also like that 7+TT it’s bloatware free
I think you made the best decisions along the way. Great Job!
Could you please consider making 7+TT compatible with Realtime Soft UltraMon (www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon)? The ‘Smart Taskbar’ on the other monitors don’t use the 7+TT settings.
Cheers,
thfs
UltraMon uses a custom implementation of the taskbar, which I don’t plan to support.
I saw the UltraMon guys redirected you to me:
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/forum/messages.asp?Topic=12078
Sure, I can hook their taskbar, but that would require a lot of work. A much more logical solution is for them to add an option to close items with a middle click.
UltraMon is not the only multimonitor software, I can’t support them all. I do support the native multiple taskbars on Windows 8, though.