I’ve always been a big fan of the free application called Taskbar Shuffle (our review) because it lets you reorganize the items in your Windows Taskbar. It’s nothing too fancy, but you can rearrange items in your System Tray with the latest version. The application even comes in two flavors: one with an installer, and one that is "portable" for those of you who don’t like installing programs.
Today I noticed a new application that offers similar features to Taskbar Shuffle, but it’s only a fraction of the download size and uses almost no memory. It’s called Taskix and weighs in at a tiny 63KB. There’s no installation needed, and after you get it running it should take up about 600KB of your memory. For me Taskbar Shuffle typically uses around 3MB, so Taskix uses about 1/5th of that.
It doesn’t have a fancy interface or a System Tray icon though, but when you run it for the first time you can activate it and choose whether you want it to start with Windows. If you ever want to terminate the program just run the executable again and it will offer the option to shut it down.
All in all I like this better than Taskbar Shuffle just because I’m all about simplicity. If the same thing can be done more efficiently then I’m all for it…and it doesn’t get much more efficient than this.
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On my system Taskbar Shuffle uses only about 1.7 MB (1776 KB). While that is more than Taskix it’s not unreasonably.
The additional memory usage in Taskbar Shuffle is probably due the system try icon. Graphics are memory hogs.
Taskix “just works” and doesn’t bog down my system with graphics or cheesy effects. Keep in mind my computer is 6 years old.
Less than 1MB memory usage means I use this one - I don’t like things stealing my memory, I have Vista to do that.
That’s definitely true, so I guess it might be a good thing not to have a tray icon for the software. I don’t really think it is necessary anyways.
Yeah, I would think that most computers could handle this.
Yep, it is definitely nice since it is such an efficient program. I actually think this is something that should be built-in to Windows though.
Surfing through Cybernetnews recently, ive come across many many applications whose functionalities which should be built into Windows. Microsoft aaaaarrrrggghhhh.
Taskbar Shuffle has one option that I love to have,
middle click in the taskbar closes the window.
can taskix do that?
Does this one also have tray icon shuffling? I’m using that too.
By the way, you can hide Taskbar Shuffle from the systray. Perhaps it could save a bit more (just enabled it, but see no change yet).
No, it does not do that.
No, you can not rearrange the System Tray icons. I never used that feature in Taskbar Shuffle so it wasn’t a big concern of mine.