Only Showing Icon On Taskbar

Sunday, August 9, 2009
By default the taskbar displays the application icon and caption which is active (in the form of a button). With the following tips you can remove the caption and just show iconnya only. That way you still have enough space if at the same time you run many applications.


  1. Run the registry editor, I click Start button - Run. Type regedit and press OK.
  2. Go to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ WindowMetrics
  3. Panel on the right search string value MinWidth ago to be change the value -255. If the string value is not there, you should make it by clicking right and select New - String Value.
  4. Close the registry.