Change your Vista Taskbar to Windows 7 style Icons

In Windows 7 on the taskbar, it does not show text on the application buttons. The only thing it shows is it's icon.


The Windows 7 application buttons saves a lot of space on the taskbar and actually looks really good. If you want it in Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, 2008 follow these steps below:

1. Get to your Run dialog box. Then type regedit in it and press the OK button. This will open your registry editor.

2.go to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics.

3. When you get to WindowsMetrics, click the edit drop down button and go to New and then string value and type in MinWidth and set its value to -255.

4. Thats all you need to do. Turn off or restart your computer and it shall be there just like in the Windows 7 taskbar.

5. If you want to change it back just delete the MinWidth string value and then restart again