Does such a program exist?

[JAStewart]

I need some program that can organize the order of my windows open along my systray, rather than me closing them and opening them in a specific order.

Does such a program exist?

[slyjoe]

I haven't tried it yet, but you may be able to find something like this:
http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/reorder-your-taskbar-and-system-tray-with-taskbar-shuffle-279381.php

[Modified]

I need some program that can organize the order of my windows open along my systray, rather than me closing them and opening them in a specific order.

Does such a program exist?

I don't have a solution, I just want to say it's highly annoying that Windows doesn't let you drag items in the systray and taskbar to reorder them.

[bokonon]

I don't have a solution, I just want to say it's highly annoying that Windows doesn't let you drag items in the systray and taskbar to reorder them.
Also highly annoying for me is the fact that the "show all" extension insists on closing while I'm tracking toward the icon I want to click. I know I'm keeping my crayon inside the lines, so I don't understand why this happens.

[richardm]

I haven't tried it yet, but you may be able to find something like this:
http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/reorder-your-taskbar-and-system-tray-with-taskbar-shuffle-279381.php

I use this. It does the job quite nicely. I didn't realise it had a 6Mb footprint, but meh.

[Modified]

Also highly annoying for me is the fact that the "show all" extension insists on closing while I'm tracking toward the icon I want to click.

I've noticed that. Also, the "show all" button tends to disappear to be replaced by an inactive dark blue square. I have to turn taskbar auto-hide on and back off to get it back. This happens on my new and old systems, so it is probably not some obscure bug.

[Rob Lister]

My god you all are spoiled. In my day there was no drag and drop. If we wanted to move something, we had to delete it, rewrite the program from scratch in machine language and manually enter it into a 16-bit register on the front of a 2-ton mainframe. I don't even want to talk about the compile problems.

[bokonon]

the "show all" button tends to disappear to be replaced by an inactive dark blue square. I have to turn taskbar auto-hide on and back off to get it back.
I haven't noticed that problem, but I have auto-hide on all the time, so maybe that's the fix.

[GreNME]

My god you all are spoiled. In my day there was no drag and drop. If we wanted to move something, we had to delete it, rewrite the program from scratch in machine language and manually enter it into a 16-bit register on the front of a 2-ton mainframe. I don't even want to talk about the compile problems.

And we had to code uphill in the snow! Both ways!

:)

I don't know if anyone here knows him, but George Martin (a writer that a friend of mine knows and works for) still insists on using an old word processing program from back in the DOS days, so he uses an A/B switch to go back and forth from regular desktop computing to his word processing while writing. Considering the types of software out there at people's disposal it seems like an archaic way to operate, but I can kind of understand his reasons for doing so even though I doubt I would do the same in his position (of course, I'm not a writer).

[Beerina]

He is aware he can run most DOS software in a window on modern computers, right? Even in "full screen" mode that completely apes the old DOS desktop. Of course, some older DOS programs might not work that way.

[The Gnomon]

And walk to school two miles uphill both ways in the snow.:D

[brainlesssteel]

I don't have a solution, I just want to say it's highly annoying that Windows doesn't let you drag items in the systray and taskbar to reorder them.

I just discovered that this is a built in feature of Gnome on Linux. I know that doesn't help Windows users, but I didn't realize I could do that until I read this thread and decided to try it and see what happened. Score one for open source :P