Hoping someone knows of a program which will order tray icons the way we want them. (For anyone who sees this and installs 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, do experiment with its settings or you could miss some really useful tweaks, and do install updates for it promptly, as updating Windows 10 can break it.) It works on Windows 10 as well as Windows 7, but will not solve the above issue.

I use the excellent freeware program 7+ Taskbar Tweaker to get round some other taskbar-related annoyances.

Now, there might be a third party add-on program which will achieve what we want. As far as I know there’s no way to fix it via Windows settings. To fix the position of all toolbars, you should click on Tools -> Customize -> Options and check the option Lock Toolbar Position. This is an example of what we call a ‘Windows annoyance’. We want to set the order they’ll appear in (left-to-right), and somehow save that so it’s done automatically. Icons might not appear in the same order in the tray even every time the system is freshly booted, since programs might have some variability in start times, and presumably the order of icons in the tray is based on what order the programs having those icons were started.Īnd when programs which display tray icons are started manually as well, the order of icons gets even more ‘random’.īoth areader and I want full control over the order of icons in the tray. Then the Quick Access Toolbar is moved from the very top of Ribbon to the bottom of Ribbon. The problem is that though icons are displayed correctly in the tray (rightmost portion of the taskbar), and the tray is in the place wanted on the screen, there is no way to control the left-to-right order of the icons appearing in the tray. Just click the Arrow button in the Quick Access Toolbar > Show Below the Ribbon.

I believe user areader‘s problem is as follows, which has been misinterpreted in a post or two above. Question: Q: How do I lock the toolbar and dock so that they don't disappear from the screen and I have to go to the edge to get them back More Less Apple Footer This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

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