As you all know about Windows 7 iconized taskbar buttons which show only the program icon and not the program name. It looks nice and also saves space. You can get the same iconized buttons in Windows XP and Vista using a very simple registry hack which was posted in following tutorial:
Get Windows 7 Iconized (Icon Only) Taskbar Feature in Windows XP and Vista
We also posted about a standalone application which does the same job automatically so you don't need to edit the registry:
Taskbar Iconizer: Utility to Iconize Taskbar in Windows XP and Vista
Now we are sharing another tool to get iconized taskbar buttons in XP and Vista. Thanks to our reader "DEE" for sharing it.
"Taskbaric" is a very small and portable tool which brings the iconized buttons functionality in Windows XP and Vista. You just need to run the EXE file and it'll do its job. If you want to revert back to default settings, run the EXE again.
It also have a special version for XP users. The registry hack makes Windows XP taskbar buttons iconized but some themes including default Luna theme (but not SevenVG theme) show the first character of program name. But "Taskbaric"'s alternative version does the job perfectly so you don't see the first character any more in taskbar buttons.
You can download it using following link:
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MMG
that's good but in either case
(registry/.exe) the icon size in tthe taskbar remains the same.
Is there anyway to make those icons look big in taskbar like they've in Win7?
MazDan
i think we got some problem to bringing back default taskbar here.
but it can be solved by "iconizer" software which u have post in http://www.askvg.com/taskbar-iconizer-utility-to-iconize-taskbar-in-windows-xp-and-vista/
Kevin
so installed it on my xp sp3. when i rebooted it came back with a single letter again.
Jason Beebe
It would be nice if you could "pin" the items to the taskbar like in Windows 7. Can this or other software provide that feature?
Riza
Wow, I like it. :)
chodor
yeah, I'd repeat MMG's question - is this tool able to also change the size of the icons, so they would be as big as in windows 7?
VG
No.
Kevin
it does not stay once you reboot it. how can you make taskbaric work every time you boot?
VG
^^ Add its shortcut to "Startup" folder present in Programs menu.
Kevin
i already did that, i even added it on the registry but how come on start up it shows a command prompt like window when taskbaric is ran on startup how do i get rid of that?