Comments on: Taskbar Overlord

By: Dom

Dom — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:43:50 +0000

What happened to “Left Click Only”? I do not want the one that does both because my clumsy fingers sometimes accidentally middle click and I don’t want to accidentally close everything I have open. Did you take away that file?

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:39:22 +0000

@Ken: I can assure you that it did not. There’s no possible way it changed the appearance of anything on your Taskbar. To change the color, you right click on the desktop, choose Personalize, and choose Window Color.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:33:11 +0000

Taskbar Overlord changed the color and look of my taskbar to a blueish grey. How do I uninstall it?

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:29:03 +0000

@berban: Except that a lot of people like the taskbar icons combined. I know I do.

By: berban

berban — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:49:00 +0000

Hey, didn’t read the whole thing exactly, but do you know about the “Never combine” option? Right click on the taskbar and select “Properties”

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/4457/img0003hk.jpg

The screenshot shows the dialog box you need and my taskbar in its uncombined glory

By: John

John — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:02:18 +0000

Hey Jay,

I see not many people have commented in a while, but that’s ok. So I started using this back in 2009 when it got posted on Lifehacker. I downloaded and worked it into my own autohotkey main script, so thanks for that. My only problems with it were that one, the brute force approximation of the location of the taskbar could in rare instances be problematic, and two, like Howard it was messing with what seemed to be control click functionality on occasion.

As far as the taskbar finding goes, as soon as the application starts I find the Window ID of the taskbar. Then, everytime I click the left button, I use

“MouseGetPos, , , id, control”

to save the id of the window under the mouse as “id”. I then compare the id to that of the taskbar. If they match, then I send the control click.

For the second issue, in your source code, the second half of your code is meant to return left click and drag functionality to the left click when it is not over the taskbar, correct? The simple way to do this to specify “~LButton” as the hotkey rather than just “LButton”. This allows the hotkey to work, without getting rid of the original functionality of the key.

So, my code just looks like this: (I didn’t include the part where I get the taskbar id, but it’s similar)

~LButton::
MouseGetPos, , , id, control
if (id = task)
Send ^{Click}
return

By: Mejora la barra de tareas de W7 « Blog de Proteneo

Mejora la barra de tareas de W7 « Blog de Proteneo — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:37:56 +0000

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By: desiree

desiree — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:30:26 +0000

yo tnia esa barra cn las ventanas en miniaturaen windiws 7 y se me a kitado
komo la puedo volver a poner ?

graciass

By: Howard

Howard — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:48:15 +0000

Thank you, I just found better solution, I no more need autohotkey for this matter.

http://lifehacker.com/5497021/speed-up-windows-7-taskbar-navigation-with-a-registry-hack

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:54:44 +0000

Hi Howard,

My suggestions are:

1) Take anger management classes.
2) Run in admin mode as suggested above, and launch the program with the task scheduler so that it runs at a high priority.
3) You might try a program called 7 Taskbar Tweaker (just search for it) which can handle the left click functionality but not the middle click functionality of Taskbar Overlord.