Microsoft Win/Fail #2
#2 in the continuing series.
Win: Windows 7 (remember I have not used Vista) now lets you move your taskbar entries around by dragging them.
Awesome! I used to have a habit of starting everything in the same order in the morning so that the buttons would always be in the same order, helping me locate them quickly. It was always annoying when one of the programs would crash or want to restart for an update since it would then move that item to the far right on the bar. Now I can just move them around.
Fail: It insists on keeping multiple windows from the same app attached to each other on the bar.
When I have two Visual Studio windows open, I like the top one (my bar is on the right) to be the Unreal project, and the bottom one to be the C# project. This is because when you alt-tab, the windows are not geographically located in the same place every time, as it seems to sort them by most-recent use. This way I can easily jump from another application to the correct project just by knowing which is the one on top.
For some reason, Windows changed the order of them when I broke for lunch for a game of Civilization V. To re-order them, I would have to quit the instance of the one I want on bottom and restart it.
Previous posts in this series:
http://theaxenalmo.blogspot.com/2011/05/microsoft-winfail-1.html
Win: Windows 7 (remember I have not used Vista) now lets you move your taskbar entries around by dragging them.
Awesome! I used to have a habit of starting everything in the same order in the morning so that the buttons would always be in the same order, helping me locate them quickly. It was always annoying when one of the programs would crash or want to restart for an update since it would then move that item to the far right on the bar. Now I can just move them around.
Fail: It insists on keeping multiple windows from the same app attached to each other on the bar.
When I have two Visual Studio windows open, I like the top one (my bar is on the right) to be the Unreal project, and the bottom one to be the C# project. This is because when you alt-tab, the windows are not geographically located in the same place every time, as it seems to sort them by most-recent use. This way I can easily jump from another application to the correct project just by knowing which is the one on top.
For some reason, Windows changed the order of them when I broke for lunch for a game of Civilization V. To re-order them, I would have to quit the instance of the one I want on bottom and restart it.
Previous posts in this series:
http://theaxenalmo.blogspot.com/2011/05/microsoft-winfail-1.html
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