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With the release of Windows 7 Microsoft has tried bringing out a couple of changes in the visual User Interface of it. One of the major visible change in Windows 7 is the new “dock style” taskbar with Jumpstart feature without any dedicated quick launch area, however the whole taskbar now behaves like Quick launch. But those who do not quite like to adapt change so quickly may want to have the older style Taskbar (like in Windows XP or Vista) which they are more familiar with, here is how you can achieve that.

This is how the new taskbar in Windows 7 looks like:

To change this to the way the task bar appears in Vista or XP or Windows 200, do the following steps:

1. Right-click on any open area of the taskbar and choose Properties from the menu.

2. From the Taskbar buttons drop-down menu, select “Never combine”, which will make every window show up as a separate button on the taskbar, or you may select “Combine when taskbar is full”, which ever you want.

3. Select the “Use small icons” checkbox in the properties screen, the taskbar will actually shrink down to look very similar to Vista.

4. Right-clicking and choosing “Unpin this program from taskbar”.

The taskbar looks similar to Windows Vista:

5. Select the “Windows Classic” theme by Right clicking on Desktop and selecting personalize section. This would bring it to the Windows 98/Windows 2000 style.

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