XP Taskbar Extensions are a great way to extend the XP taskbar across multiple monitors for free. This can be a great way to keep your work area organized and make it easier to access your tasks. There are a few different ways to do this, but the most common way is to use the Windows Task Manager. Once you have opened the Task Manager, click on the three lines in the top left corner of the window and select “Task Bar.” Then, click on “Extensions.” Once you have selected “XP Taskbar Extensions,” you will see a list of available extensions. Click on one of them and then click on “Add.” You will be asked for some information about the extension, such as your computer’s name and version number. After you have added the extension, click on “OK” to add it to your taskbar. Now that you have added XP Taskbar Extensions to your taskbar, you can use them just like any other extension. To use an XP Taskbar Extension, just right-click on it and select “Open With…” from the popup menu. Then, choose “Notepad++.” After Notepad++ has openned up the extension, type in what you want to do with it (such as change its name or add an icon). After typing in all of this information, press OK to close Notepad++ and add XP Taskbar Extension back into your task bar.
We’ve written about them before in this article, where we showed you how to make them look nice. But it seems that even we might be losing serious YouTube viewing seconds due to Windows’ restriction of the taskbar to the user’s primary monitor. This is an issue that MultiMonitor Taskbar attempts to address.
Note: The free version may possibly work on Vista, but it doesn’t natively support the Vista theme.
Installing MultiMonitor Taskbar
To download this software for free, simply navigate to the product’s page and click on the free version in the lower right corner.
Once you’ve done that, simply run the install and get yourself nice and acquainted with this little button. Follow the prompts until it’s installed to your liking.
Then we just load up the program by clicking on that uneasy looking icon.
And we’re taken from this:
To this:
It’s hard to see the significance this holds for the average user, but being able to dedicate a program to a certain monitor and have it stay there upon minimization is a godsend.
The program also places this handy little button in the right hand corner of your window.
This switches the window instantaneously from one monitor to the other, while maintaining the same dimensions and placement as you originally allocated it.
Overall an extremely convenient program, albeit a dull looking one. But, hey, it’s free.
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