Always Combine Icons via Registry

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I'm using a brand new installation of Win7 (in a commercial environment) and for some reason the icons in the taskbar dont combine if I have more than one instance of any application open.

I've found the 'TASKBAR BUTTONS' option under 'TASKBAR APPEARANCE' in PROPERTIES to change this, but it appears to be unavailable.

So two questions:

1) Can anyone suggest why this option may be greyed out for me?

2) Does anyone know where in the registry I can turn on the 'Always Combine' option.

TIA.
 

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Some programs are not compliant with this feature. What apps are not working as expected? Does it work properly for Windows Explorer?
 
No apps are combining by the looks of it. I've only installed it today, but so far I've not seen anything combine, including:

IE
Google Chrome
Notepad
Explorer
Office Outlook 2007
Office Word 2007
Calculator

Very strange, I thought it might be a group policy. But this being Win7, and us not ever having used it before...
 

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Win7 (WMC), Win8 (laptop), Win7 (PC)Intel q6600, i5 2500K4GB, 8GBRadeon 5850 (WMC), Nvidia 660ti (PC)
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PC/Desktop
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Home Brew
OS
Win7 (WMC), Win8 (laptop), Win7 (PC)
CPU
Intel q6600, i5 2500K
Motherboard
Asus, Abit IP35 Pro
Memory
4GB, 8GB
Graphics Card(s)
Radeon 5850 (WMC), Nvidia 660ti (PC)
Sound Card
XFi Gamer
Monitor(s) Displays
1 nice LCD, 1 crappy CRT
Screen Resolution
Cant remember... some widescreen setting 1600x1024 maybe?
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Quite a few, mix of SSDs for OS's and big terabyte HDDs for other things.
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1KW
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Cant remember, but they are nice.
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Adequate these days
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Very old style Microsoft make.
Mouse
Logitech half decent laser
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About 14MB BT DSL
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MSE
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Chrome
1) Can anyone suggest why this option may be greyed out for me?

My apologies for not actually comprehending your lucid post.

I woke up too late ;-) Now the baby is getting up. ZigZag will be by shortly, I am sure.

brb
 
I'm using a brand new installation of Win7 (in a commercial environment) and for some reason the icons in the taskbar dont combine if I have more than one instance of any application open.

I've found the 'TASKBAR BUTTONS' option under 'TASKBAR APPEARANCE' in PROPERTIES to change this, but it appears to be unavailable.

So two questions:

1) Can anyone suggest why this option may be greyed out for me?

2) Does anyone know where in the registry I can turn on the 'Always Combine' option.

TIA.

OI

Hi

Can we gete some info from you while some of us investigate "always combine". We could use the version of win 7 you have (ie 7600) and if its 32bitor 64?

tia

Ken
 

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I'm using build Windows 7 Professional 32-bit (6.1 build 7600) according to DXDIAG.

HTH
 

My Computer My Computer

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Win7 (WMC), Win8 (laptop), Win7 (PC)Intel q6600, i5 2500K4GB, 8GBRadeon 5850 (WMC), Nvidia 660ti (PC)
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Home Brew
OS
Win7 (WMC), Win8 (laptop), Win7 (PC)
CPU
Intel q6600, i5 2500K
Motherboard
Asus, Abit IP35 Pro
Memory
4GB, 8GB
Graphics Card(s)
Radeon 5850 (WMC), Nvidia 660ti (PC)
Sound Card
XFi Gamer
Monitor(s) Displays
1 nice LCD, 1 crappy CRT
Screen Resolution
Cant remember... some widescreen setting 1600x1024 maybe?
Hard Drives
Quite a few, mix of SSDs for OS's and big terabyte HDDs for other things.
PSU
1KW
Case
Cant remember, but they are nice.
Cooling
Adequate these days
Keyboard
Very old style Microsoft make.
Mouse
Logitech half decent laser
Internet Speed
About 14MB BT DSL
Antivirus
MSE
Browser
Chrome
Does anyone have an answer to this problem?
 

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