Comments on: Taskbar Overlord

By: zebo

zebo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:42:05 +0000

in XP and Vista, there was a checkmark to enable or disable the taskbar always on top option (useful if you choose to autohide your taskbar when not in use) but it looks like Windows 7 has the “always on top” as default and there’s no option to disable it.
If someone knows a way to disable the always on top, I will really appreciate it.

By: Robert Walker

Robert Walker — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:16:17 +0000

Here’s the extra bit of script if anyone else finds the Windows 7 right click menus a bit useless (in the taskbar area) – just changes them to a shift-right click:

;Handle right clicks on Windows 7 Taskbar to popup Windows XP style context menus
;********************************************************************************

RButton::
CoordMode, Mouse, Screen
MouseGetPos, x, y, WinUnderMouseID
;WinActivate, ahk_id %WinUnderMouseID%

;Get y position relative to the bottom of the screen.
yBottom := A_ScreenHeight – y

; Select context menu for taskbar program on right click, if click on a taskbar icon
if yBottom <= 40
{
Send, +{Click %x% %y% right} ;shift right click
; else send normal right click
} else {
;If right button is physically down
If GetKeyState("RButton") { ;The Right button is physically down
MouseClick, Right,,,0,D ;Right button down
KeyWait, RButton ;to allow dragging
MouseClick, Right,,,,0,U ;release Right button up
} Else {
MouseClick, Right,,
}
}

Return

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:34:37 +0000

Sorry. I like the right click just fine. You’re free to modify the script yourself though. It’s really not terribly hard if you read the Autohotkey documentation.

By: Robert Walker

Robert Walker — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:50:47 +0000

Great utility!!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE… can you write a utility to replace the Windows 7 RIGHT MOUSE CLICK (on task bar running program icons) with SHIFT+RIGHT MOUSE CLICK (which gives the older and far more useful Windows XP style context menu popup). The new Windows 7 popup is really useless and (as others have commented) it is also in the wrong position – i.e. some distance above where you actually clicked!!

Thanks a million!!
Robert

By: Cubano

Cubano — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:44:21 +0000

to delbydev:

enlarge the size of the task bar (unlock it and double its size). You will see everything without needing to scroll.
I know its quite not the bes solution, but you will see all the running programs once…

One thing that bugs me its, because of my display resolution, my taskbar is very small, and I dont want to double it, i just want to make it bigger (but still single lined), icons largers and stuff, but well, without changing the size of everything in windows through resosultion options, there is no way to do this

No customization sux…

By: Cubano

Cubano — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:08:35 +0000

Hi there,

somehow, if I keep Alt key pressed, I can move the icons in the taskbar…

Is this normal? If it is, why is everybody complaing the icons cant be moved?

tnx

By: delbydev

delbydev — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:58:36 +0000

If anyone has a busy task bar, switch off grouping and aero preview – alt+tab performance and experience is improved
But I have found another set back when the taskbar reaches capacity for tasks to be shown in one tasbar line, it stacks them. In XP this was great because you could see them all. But with 7 a scroll bar shows up and you have to use it to see the second stack. Try to increase the width of the taskbar does not remedy this. It just simply makes the scroll bar wider.
Does anyone know of a way to remedy this situation so we can see all open windows and not just those that fit in one stack of the task bar?

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:06:22 +0000

The program runs in the system tray and the icon looks like a little H.

By: MG

MG — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:45:29 +0000

NOT SCREAMING BABE. HAVE VERY BAD EYESIGHT.
WHY DO U THINK I CAN’T SEE THE ICONS?

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:35:27 +0000

Hi Will. Not really. About the best thing you could do is write a custom little function in AutoHotkey that would launch your game and at the same time turn off (or suspend) Taskbar Overlord. You’re best bet for figuring this out is the documentation and forums at autohotkey.com.