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Workshop: Sort programs on the Windows Taskbar

Find out how a free utility lets you drag and drop icons on the Windows Taskbar

People are creatures of habit, we like things to be predictable.

So when we use the same set of programs on a Windows PC, why shouldn’t they appear in the same order on the Taskbar each time so we can switch between them more easily?

Taskbar Shuffle lets you do just that. Like all the best utilities, it does one thing very well ­ in this case, by making it possible to re-order the way programs appear on the Windows Taskbar just by dragging and dropping them with the mouse.

It’s the kind of simple and useful feature that should have been included in the first place, but now it’s available for free ­ and here’s how to install and use it.

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