One thing I’ve found annoying about the way Windows handles the display of open applications is the inflexibility in the Taskbar. With XP they gave the ability to group Taskbar items from the same application together, but still no way for me to organize the lineup how I really want it. My morning, login routine was designed around opening up applications in order so they’d appear in the Taskbar “correctly.” I got all out of whack when an application would crash, and then my “order” was not so much anymore. Then I found Taskbar Shuffle.

Taskbar Shuffle is an amazingly simple application, that takes up very little system resources. It’s currently using 4.7MB of RAM on my computer with 1GB total RAM. I can open up my applications in any order I want, and just click-and-drag the Taskbar items to put them in the order I want.

No hotkey, no extra steps, rearrange the programs on your Windows taskbar by simply… well, dragging and dropping them! Neat concept, huh?

This is a sweet utility for those of us that like things “just so.” The price for this wonderful software, FREE. But help a brother out and donate to the cause.

If you are a user of Google Desktop, he’s even created a variation of it as a Gadget.