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Old November 10th 19, 05:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
micky[_4_]
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Default Task bar items changing order; active one hard to tell by looking at taskbar

The rectangles for each program in the task bar keep changing the order
they're in. Is there a way to make them stay put.


Also, in Win98 the active window was clearly a different shade or color
from the other rectangles. In Vista, 7, or 10, this went away and I
had to try every color before I found one what was sort of good. Have
they put it back the way it is or is there some way for me to tell
quickly which rectangle in the task bar is the one in focus?


TIA
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Old November 10th 19, 05:42 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Task bar items changing order; active one hard to tell by looking at taskbar

On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:34:59 -0500, micky
wrote:

The rectangles for each program in the task bar keep changing the order
they're in. Is there a way to make them stay put.


Also, in Win98 the active window was clearly a different shade or color
from the other rectangles. In Vista, 7, or 10, this went away and I
had to try every color before I found one what was sort of good. Have
they put it back the way it is or is there some way for me to tell
quickly which rectangle in the task bar is the one in focus?


TIA


The active window is a bit wider on one of our PC's. I can't find
anything about the width in the setup file.

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Old November 12th 19, 03:09 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Task bar items changing order; active one hard to tell by looking at taskbar

On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:34:59 -0500, micky
wrote:

The rectangles for each program in the task bar keep changing the order
they're in. Is there a way to make them stay put.


Also, in Win98 the active window was clearly a different shade or color
from the other rectangles. In Vista, 7, or 10, this went away and I
had to try every color before I found one what was sort of good. Have
they put it back the way it is or is there some way for me to tell
quickly which rectangle in the task bar is the one in focus?



I have posted a picture at https://postimg.cc/F1dY4SV5 that may
address some of your viewing concerns.

You can see that my border color is Orange. The brighter border (top,
bottom and sides) is what defines an active program and the dimmed
color defines an inactive program.

This scheme was achieved by following the instructions at
https://winaero.com/blog/enable-the-...in-windows-10/

Read the complete instructions before starting and there is an example
of what you will see at the end of these instructions.

Included in the picture that I mentioned at the start is a picture
with some programs in the task bar (labelled Taskbar Highlights).
I prefer my task bar to be on the RHS of my screen. This is a habit
which I developed back in the days when the ability to relocate the
task bar was introduced in Windows XP but having it at the bottom of a
small screen in those days was using real estate that I preferred to
keep for reading other data. And I still maintain that reasoning.

Some of the items on the task bar are described below

The blue button at the top is the Start button. The last four items
are described below.

Item 5. Total Commander This is my file manager and the green bar
indicates that a file is downloading in the background and
about 70% has been received.

Item 6. This shows that 'Mailwasher Pro' is currently idle.

Item 7. This shows that the program I use for newsgroups (Agent) is
active (note the Orange background).

Item 8. This shows that my Partition Manager program (Aomei) has been
started but is not currently active.


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Old November 13th 19, 07:06 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
micky[_4_]
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Default Task bar items changing order; active one hard to tell by looking at taskbar

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:09:27 +1100, Monty
wrote:

On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:34:59 -0500, micky
wrote:

The rectangles for each program in the task bar keep changing the order
they're in. Is there a way to make them stay put.


Also, in Win98 the active window was clearly a different shade or color
from the other rectangles. In Vista, 7, or 10, this went away and I
had to try every color before I found one what was sort of good. Have
they put it back the way it is or is there some way for me to tell
quickly which rectangle in the task bar is the one in focus?



I have posted a picture at https://postimg.cc/F1dY4SV5 that may
address some of your viewing concerns.

You can see that my border color is Orange. The brighter border (top,
bottom and sides) is what defines an active program and the dimmed
color defines an inactive program.

This scheme was achieved by following the instructions at
https://winaero.com/blog/enable-the-...in-windows-10/

Read the complete instructions before starting and there is an example
of what you will see at the end of these instructions.


This will take some time for me to have time to test this. Thanks.

Included in the picture that I mentioned at the start is a picture
with some programs in the task bar (labelled Taskbar Highlights).
I prefer my task bar to be on the RHS of my screen. This is a habit
which I developed back in the days when the ability to relocate the
task bar was introduced in Windows XP but having it at the bottom of a
small screen in those days was using real estate that I preferred to
keep for reading other data. And I still maintain that reasoning.

Some of the items on the task bar are described below

The blue button at the top is the Start button. The last four items
are described below.

Item 5. Total Commander This is my file manager and the green bar
indicates that a file is downloading in the background and
about 70% has been received.

Item 6. This shows that 'Mailwasher Pro' is currently idle.

Item 7. This shows that the program I use for newsgroups (Agent) is
active (note the Orange background).

Item 8. This shows that my Partition Manager program (Aomei) has been
started but is not currently active.



 




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