How do we get Win7 to open programs in a certain order like XP ?

I have been using XP for many many years and I have become extremely preficient at opening my programs in a specific order and know practically by intinct where everything is.

This accelerates my development considerably as I use multiple programs and go back and forth quite often.


In XP I could do this:

| Prog1 | ie - page1 | notepad - page1 | windows explorer - folder1 | ftp prog | chrome - page 3 | firefox - page 3 | ie - page 3 | notepad - page 3 |

and this:

| Prog2 | Prog3 | windows explorer - folder 3 | Prog3 ( new development ) | ie - page 8 | windows explorer - folder 4 | notepad - notes | Prog5 | windows explorer - folder 5 | notepad - changelog | Prog3 ( I often temporarily bring up a third instance of Prog3 for testing purposes for my collegues online )


^---- I know that all looks like just a random bunch of apps mixed randomly together but I assure you that these are indeed two of my five regular pipelines I use for my workflow

This process provides optimal efficiency for me and I would reallllly love to be able to do this again using Windows 7

On a side note; how can we bring back the quick launch behavior as well ?

Thanks Brink! that does help a little

It's much better than having everything grouped into one single button.


Also i noticed in the images for the grouping examples in your tutorial that there looks to be a way to remove the titlebar text of the taskbar for the open programs

How can we do that? * curious how that would look on my machine * :)

Here you go :)

ahh i see. Thanks Brink :)