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Keyboard task switching under Windows normally means repeatedly pressing Alt+Tab or Win+Tab, cycling through your running applications until you find what you need. But this is a more direct way. If you see you required program is, say, the 7th button on the taskbar, then pressing Win+7 will launch it directly.<\/p>\n
When your taskbar is cluttered then of course it may take a moment to figure out exactly which number any particular button might be. But that\u2019s where the free\u00a07+ Taskbar Numberer<\/a>\u00a0comes in. The program can add number overlays to each of your taskbar buttons, helping you identify them at a glance.<\/p>\n If this is sounding familiar, then you\u2019re right, we covered the first version of the program\u00a0last year<\/a>. But the latest build has two interesting improvements.<\/p>\n First, it introduces an option to hide the numbers until the Windows key is pressed. If you didn\u2019t like the number overlays then this may appeal, as normally your taskbar will look just as it always did.<\/p>\n (Unfortunately the numbers will also reappear whenever you press the Windows key for some other reason — Win+R to open the Run box, say — which can be distracting, but on balance we think it\u2019s a useful addition.)<\/p>\n And second, 7+ Taskbar Numberer is now fully compatible with Windows 8, which may help you launch regular Windows programs from the Start screen.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re at the desktop, say, having 7+ Taskbar Numberer will help you see that Firefox is, perhaps, button 9 on the taskbar. If you later want to return to Firefox from the Start Screen, there\u2019s no need to use Alt+Tab, or click the desktop tile, then the Firefox taskbar button: just press Win+9 and the browser will reappear immediately. (Win+number is a standard task switching hotkey, of course, but 7+ Taskbar Numberer just makes it a little easier to use.)<\/p>\n One small down side here is that getting 7+ Taskbar Numberer set up and working as you\u2019d like still requires a little work. There\u2019s no automated setup, so you\u2019ll need to save the program somewhere safe, set up a shortcut, give it the correct command line arguments, and so on.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not difficult, though \u2013 the program\u2019s readme.html file has everything you need — and on balance7+ Taskbar Numberer<\/a>\u00a0makes it notably easier to switch to and launch running and pinned applications.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> Liv friis-larsen<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n Keyboard task switching under Windows normally means repeatedly pressing Alt+Tab or Win+Tab, cycling through your running applications until you find what you need. But this is a more direct way. If you see you required program is, say, the 7th button on the taskbar, then pressing Win+7 will launch it directly. When your taskbar is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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