Tweak VI

[Not Bman]

I searched for Tweak UI for Vista, found tweak Vi...

changed the settings i wanted, but it dosen't do anything? whats going on?

 

[Electronic Punk]

I used this and it prevented me from going and getting my Windows Experience score, I had to go back in and change some *default* options away and it worked again. Something about performance counters and control panel - something I wouldn't be bothered to fiddle with!

 

[Not Bman]

Well the only reason I got it is cause I want the taskbar to do that related thing, where if there is 2 msn windows i want them to be one, yea know.

How can I do that?

 

[Electronic Punk]

Group similarly...
Not on Vista at the moment, but if you right click on the start menu and go to properties it is in there somewhere, whether you can change the number I don't know.

Interestingly tho tabbed messenger windows is something the messenger team wants to add in the next release of live messenger!

 

[NetRyder]

Not on Vista at the moment, but if you right click on the start menu and go to properties it is in there somewhere, whether you can change the number I don't know.

The option is called "Group similar taskbar buttons"
There's no way to change the number directly through the UI. Regedit to the rescue.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Create a new DWORD value called "TaskbarGroupSize"
Set the value to 2 (or whatever else you like)

 

[Not Bman]

do I need to restart after that?

 

[NetRyder]

do I need to restart after that?

My guess is that at least Explorer needs to be restarted, so you can either try killing and restarting explorer.exe via Task Manager, or just reboot the system.

 

[Not Bman]

thanks man, great help.