To ease the taskbar customization process, plenty of apps have been made, and out of all those, TaskBar X seems to be the best option. The TaskBar X is a taskbar customization tool that gives you control over your taskbar icons. With Taskbar X, you can choose to move the taskbar icons to the center in just one click.
Also, the tool allows you to apply custom style and animation to the taskbar. So, in this article, we are going to share a detailed guide on how to customize the taskbar in Windows 10 fully.
Step 1. First of all, download the TaskbarX zip file on your PC. Step 3. Once extracted, you will find lots of files. Step 4. Now the taskbar icons will be moved to the middle of the Taskbar. Step 5. Now you will see various taskbar customization options. In the Style section, you can customize the color and transparency of the taskbar.
Step 6. Some of these will only be available when you run Vista in "Aero"-mode, a display mode that may not be supported by some older graphic cards, and which is not available on Windows Vista Home Basic one of the reasons why I would never advise people to buy Vista Home Basic. One enhancement is called "Live Taskbar Thumbnails" Figure.
As indicated by the name, these thumbnails are "live", meaning that the thumbnail will always have the latest information from the application running. No more guesswork if a Web site has loaded, or an application has finished processing, you'll be able to check from the thumbnail without the need to switch to the window. Keep in mind that, just like in Windows XP, selecting the Properties command from the Start button will open the dialog box with the Start menu tab showing while selecting the Properties command from the Taskbar or clicking the Taskbar and Start Menu icon in the Control Panel will open the dialog box with the Taskbar tab showing.
As you can see, the Taskbar tab is straightforward and contains just six check boxes. The Notification area, which used to be on this bottom portion of the tab, now has its own tab.
The first five configuration options, and their corresponding actions, are identical to those in Windows XP. The new option, titled Show Window Previews Thumbnails , allows you to disable the live Taskbar thumbnails feature, which of course is one of the new Aero features that displays thumbnail images of running applications as you hover your mouse pointer over any button on the Taskbar. Since the thumbnails are very helpful in quickly identifying active tasks and will actually show live operations, such as a download in progress, I'm not sure what advantage disabling it will have.
However, some folks may not like the additional graphics overhead and clearing the Show Window Previews Thumbnails check box will revert the Taskbar back to the way it worked in Windows XP--it simply displays the title of running applications as you hover your mouse pointer over the button on the Taskbar. Even though hiding the Taskbar will give you more screen real estate, I was reluctant to do so in Windows XP because I always needed the Taskbar not only to switch tasks, but also to see the time; however, I've discovered that in Windows Vista I don't have to permanently keep the Taskbar on the screen because of Flip 3D.
If you enable the Auto-Hide The Taskbar option and disable the Keep the Taskbar On Top Of Other Windows option, you'll not only increase your screen real estate, but you'll begin to really appreciate the elegance of using Flip 3D as your main task switching mechanism. It will still appear and can be used when you press the [Windows] key or when you hover your mouse pointer at the bottom of the screen. When you first open the Start menu tab, you'll notice that it no longer contains a miniature image of the Start Menu, as shown in Figure B.
You'll also notice that it contains a new panel titled Privacy that provide you with two check boxes to remove the Recent menu from the Start Menu and disable the list of recently opened programs that automatically accumulate on the main section of the Start Menu. While Microsoft has greatly enhanced the way that Windows Vista's Start Menu works, you can still select the Classic Start Menu radio button, click Apply, and revert back to a Windows style Start menu.
If you then click the adjacent Customize button, you'll discover that the Customize Classic Start Menu dialog box is almost identical to the same dialog box in Windows XP. If you are using the Vista Start Menu, you may want to click the adjacent Customize button and investigate the plethora of options on the Customize Start Menu dialog box, as shown in Figure C.
Rather than two tabs, this newly designed dialog box only has one tab and a host of configuration options now appear in the scrolling outline box. You can put the main area of the Start Menu to much better use if you configure it as a launching area for all the programs you use most often.
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