Windows taskbar

[Lil Ms Squirrel]

Does anyone know if it's possible to write an application that can reorder the tasks on the windows taskbar?

My other half likes to always have his Outlook task on the left, followed by IE then his other programs and keeps pestering me to write something to do this so that if I accidentally close Outlook, he doesn't have to reopen everything.

I know he's a bit anally retentive but does anyone have any ideas?

[CadDragon]

I don't have your answer, I just thought I would add that it's funny, but I'm the same way about my taskbar...

Windows Explorer first...
AutoCAD second...
Adobe PDF third...
(Minimize Outlook to the system tray).....

Sorry I can't help you though... Good luck...

[Mike Hildner]

lol, me too. I need my applications in a certain order to find that peaceful, zen state.

Not .NET, but this may help:
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/tbarsort.asp

[Negative0]

I used to be the same way until I found the TrayIt application. It allows me to put Outlook into my Tray instead of in the taskbar. The only downside is that e-mails are considered part of outlook, so when I create a new one I get an icon for it in my tray until I send it.

http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm

[kleinma]

the only way to reorder is to hide all the windows that have entries in the taskbar and then reshow them in the order you want them to be in....

this is probably what that VB6 example did, and you could write the same code in .NET...

[Lil Ms Squirrel]

this is probably what that VB6 example did, and you could write the same code in .NET...

vb6 version??? Am I missing something?

[kleinma]

sorry the example is C++, I thought it was VB6

but still you could use standard API calls to do it