Add Stacks to the Windows 7 Taskbar with StandaloneStack

Posted by Paul

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One of my favorite features of many launchers is Stacks, an arrangement of multiple shortcuts but vertically. Windows 7‘s variation on the taskbar with it’s ability to pin applications to it is very nice but there is just not enough room for all the applications that are needed.

StandaloneStack makes enough room and adds Stacks to both Windows Vista and the Windows 7 taskbars. A little tweaking is needed to get it to work correctly but once it is up and running it works perfectly. You can choose from the standard Stacks or a grid style that places them all in a single window.

As is with any application there are ways that it could be made better but there are things you can easily do on your own. One thing I disliked was the low grade icon that is used for the shortcut. Thankfully this is easily fixed by right clicking on the shortcut, selecting Properties and click on “Change Icon”. There is a virtually identical icon located in %SystemRoot%System32imageres.dll.

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4 Comments

glurt

Said,

did I miss something , they stolen kde and macOS ideas ? LOL :)
worst -199$

Paul Foty

The stacks are something that are actually missing from Windows 7. While it is a little like KDE I have a hard time getting used to the KDE version. Microsoft somehow did it a little better but they really screwed up on a couple areas. You have to use a program like Standalone Stacks to pin actual files to the taskbar. Otherwise it pins the parent application instead of the file. And stacks just rock on any OS :)

While I think the price is a little high for Windows 7 I still think I will end up buying the Family Pack. My wife would kill me if I tried to put Linux back on her machine again.

clone4crw

So how do you make it work with the Windows 7 taskbar? It works fine just opening a stack on the desktop, but not when it’s pinned on the taskbar.

Windows 7

What is benefit of this feature.

Thanks

Add Stacks to the Windows 7 Taskbar with StandaloneStack

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