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Tools of the Trade: Taskbar Shuffle

Taskbar Shuffle is probably one of the most used and most overlooked pieces of software on my PC. It does one thing and does it extremely well: It allows you to rearrange the buttons on your Windows taskbar by simply dragging and dropping them. Brilliant!

Ever since Firefox introduced the ability to reorder tabs, I ‘ve wanted that ability on the Windows taskbar. It’s a feature I love in my browsers and HTML editors, and Taskbar Shuffle brings it to Windows. All you do is install the program — that’s it. There are no hotkeys or extra steps; simply reorder your programs to your heart’s content.

What’s the point? For me, it’s a workflow tool. I like to arrange my programs in a specific order when I’m coding. For example, when I’m coding a new site based on a PSD, I like to have the following open from left to right: Photoshop, e Text Editor, Firefox, IE7, and IE6. In the past, if I accidentally closed a program or it crashed, I’d restart it and it would show up at the end of the taskbar. If I’d been working for a long time, it could take a while to get used to the new order of programs, and I’d end up wasting time, flipping between application. Not anymore.

I’m using Taskbar Shuffle 2.0 on XP Home SP2, and I have never had any problems with it. It sits in the system tray and quietly does what it does. I highly recommend it to anyone who’s ever wanted Firefox-style movable tabs on the Windows taskbar.

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