HOME | DD
SuprVillain — Windows 7 Taskbar Iconizer
Published: 2008-11-06 23:50:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 307990; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 377370
Redirect to original
Description
With one simple click, you can turn your Taskbar in to a Windows 7 like Iconized Taskbar, also, you can revert the changes.This app was inspired by Vishal Gupta, from [link] .
UPDATE: Fixed an error with the restore feature.
Thanks go to for helping out.
let this be a lesson, never code when your tired.
NOTE!!!
This message is for everyone, ok?
As i have said over and over and OVER again, i have shrunk the box down as much as possible. any text / whatever that you may have still in the box is due to the skin that your using.
If you have Text in the box still, then use another skin. Sorry to be so damn blunt, but if you skim through just the comments on the page, you will see that a lot of people have complained about it, and as i point out every time, it is not my fault.
please do not blame me, change your skin, or blame the author of the skin.
Related content
Comments: 146
"SevenVG" Theme Is Working Without Any Text In The Box!
Luna Theme DOES show some text.
Thanks Solo Dev a lot!!!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thats up to the Theme creator in the spacing.... I did try to make it work for the then current themes.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
i know how to make taskbar icons bigger, leaving the rest of the icons. Use ViGlance
[link]
and it iconises and makes it look like 7 (but you need the win 7 theme)
go to
[link]
for my overview thing for getting vista to look like 7 (including non-windows themes and the Win7 theme)
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
My Vista looks more like 7...
ViGlance (for iconiser / groups)
[link]
Ignore the "for XP", it works in Vista
VistaGlazz (for non-Windows themes)
[link]
Windows 7 Theme
[link]
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
My Vista looks more like 7...
ViGlance (for iconiser / groups)
[link]
Ignore the "for XP", it works in Vista
VistaGlazz (for non-Windows themes)
[link]
Windows 7 Theme
[link]
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
It only makes them icons. I think they should work out a re-sizer for it.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
cant be done, the size is hard-wired in to the operating system. sadly, if you want 32x32 sized icons in the task bar, then your going to have to use Windows 7 only.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
ViGlance can icon-resize, but it has to be running all the time.
[link]
Works on XP and Vista.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
click the "Download File" button to the right.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
this is awesome. I just tried it and using it now x3
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
that is as big as they get, the app just shrinks the text area of the buttons.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
just click on the normal looking button at the bottom, then reboot.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
i got my vista to look just like Windows 7. but the box's are a little small and look fake. anyways great job
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
yeah this does not affect the icon size, i wish it did, just the button size.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Rightclick - > Taskbar - > Taskbar buttons - > Never compine
It did the trick!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This will not work with my Windows 7 Ultimate, i want that vista taskbar to my w7, i hate that in w7 there's only icons, it always mess up my head!
I tried to change minwidth but it didn't change anything..
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\MinWidth (154)
But after this it didn't gave me vista taskbar to my w7...now there's still only icons...
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
The app was never tested with win7, so i have no idea about what would happen.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
what visual theme where you using in the preview? with the black start button and blue taskbar?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
i dont remember anymore, i made this app so long ago, and i was on XP then. sorry for not being more of a help to you.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
oh, lol don't worry about it, I've seen other skins that look similar to this one. Plus I'm using Windows 7 for that matter.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
thats awesome 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
im sry i just have to say this...
you couldnt find a better icon for the file?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
yeah the gimp is not that great at doing high-res icons.
either that or i suck hard at understanding the gimp and icons and bpp and such.
it's probably me. XD
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
if u send me a png i can convert it to a good icon. (ps: i hated the icon so much that i restoratored it and put my own in ((did not redistribute it)))
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Hey i like it
is it possible to get it so its like thi
(icon)(windows open)(arrow)
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
i may be able to do so. thanks for the suggestion
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
PS
Sorry for bad english but I'm tired and it's hot these days...
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
yeah i agree, it is like 90 degrees where i am at.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Same here...
Have you been able to reproduce the bug? Have you seen the linked pic that shows the bug?
You didn't reply to the above msgs
Your hack did only modify HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics, MinWidth value?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
yes, just that one value. change it back to 1000.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Default was 154, but changing it makes no difference: icons used for minimized windows on the toolbar are wrong.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
and your using XP? i dont know how to help you, your the first to mention something like this happening.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
As I said I use Vista Home Premium and right after using this hack (Win7 type, log-off, re-login and then XP/Vista type, log-off, re-login) folders don't show anymore the expected icons for taskbar window buttons.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
This hack had nothing to do with the icons. you may have used something else that messed with your icons.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I'm quite sure everything was ok before running it.
Never used other hacks or patches on this system. It's quite clean.
You don't have this side-effect with yuor Vista?
You can enter C: and taskbar window-button will reflect the little HD icon or does it show the "ugly icon" for you too?
👍: 0 ⏩: 2
Well, after many looong tests (HP Recovery to the original laptop defaults with nothing extra installed etc.) I have the final word about the problem: it's a bug in Vista!
It starts with the folder buttons on the taskbar showing the correct icon for the folder you're in... at this point if you keep these folders open and start copying back and forth many files simulteneously Vista will loose this feature and will start showing the "ugly icon" for all open folders! I've done nothing to alter themes, icons and the rest. No hacks or patches. Just used it after a clean reinstall and noticed that without apparent reason it looses this feature!
Win7 Iconizer has nothing to do with it actually (as expected)...
PS
I reported the bug to MS, maybe a hotfix will be released one day...
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
| Next =>