Quote Originally Posted by zildjohn01
here's an article i stumbled upon (written in c#):

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/taskbarsorter.asp

which i'm sure you could adapt to your needs. search through the buttons until you find the window handle that matches yours. then send a TB_SETBUTTONINFO to the taskbar to modify the text. seems a little brute-forced, but it would probably work. good luck
Wow, looks interesting. And complex. I'll see what I can do with that.