customizing task bar

hukkus

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Dec 19, 2016
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Hi all,

There are a couple of things I would really love to change about the behaviour of the windows 7 task bar. I would basically love to come back to the behaviour of XP for those issues, but I can't find out how to do it:

-If you place your mouse over one of the task bar icos, it shows a small window showing it. I don't really need that, I find it distracting.

-Sometimes (depending on the colours of the windows, etc) it can be hard to know which window you are using at the moment. It is just a bit brighter which might be not enough to identify it at a first glance. It was much better in XP and I would love to come back to that.

-If you have a few windows opened (for example two mozillas, one word, one excel) and you click on the task bar on the one you are currently using (one of the mozilla windows), the screen shows the previous one you were using. Instead of keeping the current window open. As in XP.

Any help would be welcome!
 

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