After all these years using Windows I only found out about this great feature recently.
One of the most obnoxious features on the taskbar (or toolbar) is the default setting “Group Similar Taskbar Buttons.” I turn this off immediately when on a new system. Since I use Firefox and its tabbing it is not as much trouble as it used to be, but I still don’t like having a bunch of buttons fuse together suddenly.
One of the nice features of the grouped taskbar buttons is that you can have the windows tiled horizontally, vertically, or cascaded. I had no idea you could do that without having the automated groupings. Add onto that the possibility of grouping dissimilar items (an Excel window and a browser window).
Open a group of windows (I’ll wait . . . ) now, hold down the [ctrl] key and click on several taskbar buttons. This will look like any other multiple selection you have ever done on Windows so no need to describe it. Now, right-click on one of the windows a voilà , you have a context menu with options to try. You can figure it out from there.
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