7 Plus Taskbar Tweaker
Claudio Davey
The latest beta version of 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, 5.11.2.1, has most of the tweaks working with the old taskbar on Windows 11. Originally designed to be compatible with a Windows 10 Dev Channel build, the beta version requires a supporter access code for it to work on Windows 11. Your support is highly appreciated, and if you have any problems with it, feel free to contact me.
Until recently I used your 7+ taskbar tweaker with great pleasure and gratitude. A few weeks ago I bought a new laptop with win11. Unfortunately, 7+taskbar tweaker no longer works properly. I was very happy that there was a solution by using Explorer Patcher. However, when using virtual desktops, 7+taskbar tweaker does not work quite right. When switching back to previous desktop, the taskbar items are reset in the original order of opening and not in the order I give them. Is it possible to repair this in a future update?
By default, the order of the taskbar items is not preserved both in Windows 10 and Windows 11. You can use the virtual_desktop_order_fix advanced option to solve this. See here. You can enable the virtual_desktop_order_fix advanced option by right clicking the tray icon, selecting Advanced Options, and setting it to 1.
If one decides to use Explorer Patcher to revert to the Win 10 taskbar, if one changes their mind, is it possible to undo what it has done? In other words is there a way to get back to the way things were before running having run Explorer Patcher?
It would be very nice to adjust Taskbar height and Icon size height/widht separately. Esspecially for people like me trying to get win7 taskbar back with 40 pixel height and Iconsize of 4060 Pixel. Startallback does the job so its possible. but its not compatible with most other programs.
Good news update. I posted a edited version of the above on the EP developer page and user pyrates999 ( -8629911) advised me to run EP again and use Properties>About>restore default settings application.
So . I reinstalled EP and did the above, and with 7Tt running also the Taskbar acts and looks almost as before (I thought the active button used to be more distinguishable) though restore default settings nuked a couple or so other tweaks.
The most noticeable was that the minimalist W/11 right click context menu was back, but I see that EP offers restoring that back to W.10 as an option, which worked. And my Quick Launch toolbar which MS eliminated is back!
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.
Multi-page scrolling is only triggered inside the area where program icons are displayed (the area between the task view button and the system try). Instead, make multi-page scrolling available on the complete taskbar. That way users can benefit from both features. You can minimize/restore programs and you can scroll pages if you move the mouse on the start button (or search field/search button/task view button/system tray).
Is it possible, please, to add a secondary checkbox for volume control over taskbar in order to choose to work over the empty space of taskbar (c)?
In this way, using a+b+c will split the taskbar space more evenly between both commands.
Thank you
I've tried out quite a lot of styles and experimented with my own over the past few weeks, but one overall issue I've experienced is with windows wanting attention and how Curtains handles that situation on the taskbar buttons.
As everyone knows, sans-Curtains, when a window wants your attention it will start blinking orange on the taskbar button and depending on how the software called the API (FlashWindow/FlashWindowEx) and your registry settings (default is 7), it will stop blinking after so many blinks and be a solid colour.
In Curtains you get the opportunity to change that taskbar button image, but it doesn't blink or flash in any way, instead, it switches to the other customized button. I keep sounds off in messaging applications so I can focus on work, the blinking effect is the only way applications have to gain my attention, otherwise I don't know if I have a message. I have found I do not notice a simple colour change on the taskbar, and in a lot of styles, the colour change isn't very noticeable either.
Of course, you can already customize and remove the custom taskbar button to get the default Windows UI. But if it's at all possible in some way, I'd like to see some method of being able to blink or otherwise gain attention to the windows of these customized taskbar buttons.
It seems to work for me: the 5th taskbar button frame should be the "flashing" image. It will cycle between that image and the regular one to perform the flashing, and after a few cycles it will end with the "flashing" image in place on the taskbar. Here's an example using the Midnight style:
To make sure i was doing a proper test, I installed a brand new version of Win10 x64 2004 in VMWare, ran WU, then set the taskbar to small icon mode and never combine buttons like you have, then installed Curtains, then switched to the Midnight style, then copied over nircmd.exe, issued the same parameters, and this is what happens to me:
Could there be some other setting you might have changed or other utility? Afterwards, I tried modifying the Midnight style, editing frame 5, and it shows up as expected, but there's still no flashing.
I'm running a whole bunch of tools; 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, Open Shell Menu, T-Clock Redux, plus a lot of registry tweaks from WinAero Tweaker and other places. I don't think I've ever seen the taskbar icon not blink in sync with the window titlebar when something calls FlashWindow, though.
On the VM I tested on, which is what was used in the gif I uploaded above, it is a brand new install for this testing purpose, there have been no other installations, no other utilities and no tweaks done. Although I've installed WB on it since to see if the problem occurred there too, and it did.
I know this is an old thread but if one's looking... To get Win 11 to look like Win 7 or 8 or 10, there is a utility. It was written incorporating Windows code, so it doesn't run as a separate program. Every aspect of Win 11 can be made to look like it's predecessor up to 7, Appearance wise, everything is a skin or a launcher (android lingo).
It is cheap and I have been using it since Win 8, there are other free versions and tweaks too. I will not publicize it/them. Win 11 is faster than any of it's previous versions. Copy file to launch and run a program. Don't quit 11. Look up the tweak(s) on google...
If a Win 11 work PC is forced on you, you can always blame your IT dept.!
Then I'm sorry, I really am at a loss as to what the issue is you're having. In your msg you are describing the process as on Windows 10 and these steps are available in the SystemTrayMenu app that's in the MS store, I have achieved the same outcome you described on my Win11 PC. You can see the doco here with a GIF showing the menu and sub menu action and the config options are all available within the app menu.
Google Explorer Patcher. This software on Github restores the Win 10 Taskbar (Taskbar Toolbars plus ability to move Taskbar wherever you want). If you right click on the Taskbar and click on Properties the first option in the list allows you to switch between Win 10 and Win 11 taskbars with just a couple of clicks.
@truus22 You need to install ExplorerPatcher, available on Github at this link. It completely restores the Windows 10 taskbar, including the Toolbars > Address, Links, Desktop and New Toolbar... function at the top when you right-click the taskbar.
It's not entirely user-friendly, but you can make changes to it by right-clicking the taskbar and selecting "Properties" from the pop-up menu. It also lets you put back certain Win 10 functionality in Windows Explorer, but that's not turned on by default. You can uninstall it from Control Panel > Programs and Features, where it will appear as "ExplorerPatcher."
Also known as The Book of One Thousands Nights and a Night, or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Use SoMany Different Apps to Try to Force Windows 10 into Submission. Indeed. Over the past two years, I've investeda lot of time learning and teaching on the pros and cons of thelatest Microsoft operating system. Mostly cons, and most of them stemming from a simple fact - Windows 10assumes everything is a mobile device, hence the somewhat moronic desktop defaults.
This extends to things like forced updates and subsequent reboots, too much telemetry and whatnot. I have noproblem with this on transactional devices like mobile phones, and I do love Windows Phone 10, tested onLumia 640 and again on Lumia 950,my newest gadget to be precise. But on the desktop? Nope. Hence, so many guides and tutorials on how to stopthe idiocracy from affecting your life. Now, we have a new tool, and it's called Winaero Tweaker.
Without going into too many details, Winaero is a well-known domain to the nerdy among Windows users, andthere's a lot of useful, practical stuff there. The owners of the domain decided to bundle their guides andutilities into one-mega tool, and thus Winaero Tweaker was born. It is a program designed to help you control awide range of settings in Windows, including cosmetic, security, privacy, and other options. It looksinteresting, because it offers a range of Windows 10 stupidity mitigation features, and that is what we shallbe testing today.
Anyhow, the installation was quick and simple. Winaero Tweaker can be configured as either a portable app orinstalled to the disk. I went with the installation, and soon enough had the program running. It's a simpletool, with unassuming looks, a clear UI, and about 100 different options, sorted in categories, available in asingle mouse scroll. This is quite convenient, as you won't need to get lost in sub-menus.
Another bonus is that you get detailed explanations for each tweak, plus you can open a web page, usually anarticle or a guide on Winaero, providing further information or even specific instructions on what theparticular setting does.
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