Windows / Vista – Taskbar Grouping

Taskbar Grouping: Change The Number Of Grouped Items

The taskbarGroupSize Registry setting tells Windows that it should always group taskbar icons after a certain number of windows are open.

• Open the Registry Editor by clicking:

Start->Start search on Vista

Start->Run on Windows XP

• Type regedit and then navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

• Create a new DWORD entry by right-clicking (an empty area of the right pane) and clicking:

New-> DWORD (32-bit) Value in Vista
New-> DWORD on Windows XP

• Name the DWORD: taskbarGroupSize

• Now, double-click the TaskbarGroupSize and set the Hexadecimal value to the number of windows you want to group:

The value 0 causes buttons to be grouped by age (with the oldest group first),
1 groups buttons by size (largest group first),
2 groups two or more windows,
3 groups three or more windows, and so on

• Restart Computer