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Right now I use UltraMon to extend my taskbar across multiple monitors. So windows on the first monitor show up on the taskbar on the first monitor, and windows on the second monitor show up on the taskbar on the second monitor.
However, UltraMon does not support "Task Grouping", a feature in Windows since XP. Basically if you have many windows open, it will group together windows from the same app in a single taskbar entry. So if I have 22 explorer windows open, I'll only see a single explorer entry, and if I click it, a menu of the 22 windows shows up. Ultramon doesn't support this, instead I see 22 taskbar entries.
Are there any utilities (or built in to windows 7 ways?) that will extend the taskbar across multiple monitors, and support task grouping on the secondary monitors?
Utilities I've tried that don't provide this feature:
- UltraMon
- Actual Multiple Monitors
- MultiMonitor Taskbar PRO (doesn't look right in Win 7)
- DisplayFusion
- MonMan (doesn't even run in Win 7)
displayfusion also does not group the apps, just as a sidenote – akira – 2010-05-01T07:23:37.177
I also tried DisplayFusion, just because I was desperate, and I can confirm it doesn't support this either. I wonder why nobody ever added this feature. – davr – 2010-05-02T05:45:57.927
It's not built into Windows 7, by design: http://keznews.com/4924_Windows_7_Tasksbar_Multi-Monitor_Support
– Mark Allen – 2010-05-04T19:23:40.150Yes, windows designers are too dumb to figure out the very best way to do it, so instead they don't do it at all. For me personally, having two taskbars (one on each monitor) makes my daily work much easier. I just wish one of the 3rd party taskbars was able to duplicate all the featuers of the main windows taskbar. – davr – 2010-05-06T02:27:57.107
1@George Edison: It's very useful when you have many windows open from the same program. Say for example I have 12 explorer windows open, if they all take up their own spot on the taskbar, it means each individual spot will be much smaller, making it harder to find my one Firefox window. – davr – 2010-05-17T17:45:45.267