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I’ve blogged about Taskbar Shuffle before. Since I discovered this little program, it’s quickly become one of my must-haves.

Taskbar Shuffle is a free utility that implements a feature that should have been there by default, and does so quite elegantly as well: ordering Windows’s taskbar buttons.

You may still be wondering what the use of this sort of thing is. Well, personally, I hate the way taskbar buttons are in “chronological” order by default. I don’t like Windows’s feature that groups similar taskbar buttons—having to click two times to get to a window is just too tedious—, yet I like to keep open windows somewhat organized. As a web developer, you quickly find yourself with a text editor, several imaging applications and a couple of web browsers open, and you really don’t want to start those in a particular order just to be able to perform some routines blindly.

Now, in addition, Taskbar Shuffle’s author recently implemented a similar feature. You can now perform the same sort of ordering with system tray icons. This is achieved by holding a hotkey of your choice and dragging the icons around. Beautiful.

In case you hadn’t noticed—the title, stupid—, this post’s raison d’être is, for the most part, to move my previous post and its emotional baggage down.