Drag, Click & Snap Windows and Taskbar Buttons into Position

FYI: The URL given for WinSplit Revolution hasn't loaded for me in several weeks, it may be gone?

Taskbar Shuffle: I really like the ability to move systray icons. The drag-n-drop of taskbar buttons seems flaky and fairly often needs more than one try. (The vertical black bar doesn't always show up, when that happens the button can't be moved. Sometimes the bar shows up immediately.) The animation bugs me and I wish I could turn it off. The author hasn't answered any forum posts since releasing the current version earlier this year, and there are many posts asking questions and reporting problems. But it's free, so... hey :-)

I do currently use and can recommend Taskbar Manager from Askarya http://www.askarya.com/tm/tm.asp

This app is NOT free though. And IMO the registration fee is a bit high for a single purpose utility. Despite that, I bought it several years ago after trying it out. It doesn't move systray icons, though, but does have a few other handy features.

I just mention it in case anyone else wants such a program enough to buy shareware. I don't know of any other program that works so solidly and has a very small footprint. I've tried a couple others besides Taskbar Shuffle and Askarya's is still the one that I go back to. YMMV of course.

(PLEASE NOTE: This is an unsolicited and unpaid endorsement, I'm not affiliated with Askara or Taskbar Manager in any way, I'm just a satisfied customer and want to pass along my experience, that's all. I wish it was free!)

I am also a fan of Taskbar Shuffle... But our standard platform at my office is (64-bit) Windows XP x64. The only free utility I have found with a 64 bit version is something called "taskix", available here: http://taskix.robustit.com/

It only allows rearranging the taskbar "buttons", but for that it works great - I've never had a bit of trouble from it. [and it sure beats closing and re-opening programs to get them in the "right" order :-)]

Thanks!
Troy

Have been using Taskbar Shuffle for a couple of years and highly recommend it. Should be a part of Windows.

Thanks, will check out the first three. I currently use TaskArrange (found at http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/taskarrange.html) but will try Taskbar Shuffle since TaskArrange doesn't move System Tray icons.

NiftyWindows is awesome as well. But I recommend that the option to remove color from a window be used by those with REALLY good video, and to remember how to cancel effects if you get in a bind (Ctrl+WIN+Backspace to revert to Windows normal or WIN+Esc to toggle the effects).

I say this because I experienced a delay between triggering the "remove a color" effect and it's execution. This, coupled with a little impatience on my part, resulted in somewhat undesirable behavior (smile). But otherwise my laptop with 256MB dedicated video board was able to handle the rest, even the varying degrees of transparency.

NiftyWindows sounds like it's worth a try, but most of its best features I can get in WinRoll, another very nice, extremely tiny freeware app.

The RSS promo maintains that these utilities offer similar features to that found in Photoshop - that may or may not be so. But should a site that promotes free software be giving a free plug to software with a price tag of A$1,148.40, that's about US$895!

I can second Winsplit, puts an end to systematic window overlapping. It gives you much better window organization, including child windows, and dual monitor support. Problem is, some program windows are not resizable and you have others that you cannot save their location...