What does this 7+ Taskbar Tweaker option do?

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I am Win10/Pro 21H2, 19044.2006 (September)

In the options for 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, can anyone explain what checking the box for “Minimize/restore when mouse is over:” does? I’ve checked the box for ‘Taskbar buttons’, but I don’t see any difference in behavior when the box is checked vs unchecked.

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What does the mouse wheel do when it’s unchecked?

Windows 11 Pro version 22H2 build 22621.2361 + Microsoft 365 + Edge

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I have a Logitech mouse with a receiver plugged into a USB port. It doesn’t have a middle button, only left and right buttons. There is a mouse wheel in the center that you can press. Here are the results of pressing the mouse wheel while the cursor is an empty space on the Taskbar.

The first image is while reading this post and the second image is after clipping the post and pasting it to Word. So, essentially, pressing the mouse wheel gives me screen images of the programs that are open at the time (first only a FF image and then two images, one for FF and one for Word). I can navigate to one or the other of the open programs.

In other words, what I get is the same as if I pressed ALT-TAB. I get these images, no matter whether the box for ‘Taskbar buttons’ is checked or unchecked or the ‘Thumbnails’ box is checked or unchecked.

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To see the effect, you have to “scroll” the mouse wheel, not press it.

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OK, now I am scrolling on a Taskbar icon with the wheel, not pressing it. Thanks for pointing that out. I had gone to Tweaker Help, but somehow missed the “scrolling part”.

I have the ‘Taskbar button box’ checked.

Five programs are running on the Taskbar, opened in this order: FF (5 tabs), Tweaker Help, News, Word (2 files, Document1 and Document2 opened in that order), Excel (2 files, Book1 and Book2, opened in that order.)

When all five program are minimized, scrolling on any one of these five minimized icons will show me this: FF (the active tab), Tweaker Help (the open page), News (the opened page), Word (nothing), Excel (nothing).

Next, I clicked on all 5 of these Taskbar icons to ‘unminimize’ them.
Scrolling on the FF icon gives me the active FF tab or the last viewed of the other 4 icons (which was News).
Scrolling on the Tweaker Help icon gives me the Tweaker Help page or the last viewed of the other 4 icons (which was News).
Scrolling on the News icon gives me the News page or the last viewed of the other 4 icons (Word Document1).
Scrolling on the Word icon gives me nothing – only a popup listing the 2 Word documents.
Scrolling on the Excel icon gives me nothing – only a popup listing the 2 Excel documents.

So, I am beginning to get the gist of how scrolling on a Taskbar icon works – you get either the open page of that icon or a single, last opened viewed page of any of the other icons.

However, it seems odd that Word and Excel do not react to any scrolling on their respective Taskbar icons

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WCHS wrote:

However, it seems odd that Word and Excel do not react to any scrolling on their respective Taskbar icons

If you have the “Combine taskbar buttons” option for the taskbar set to combine buttons, there’ll only be one button for multiple windows opened using the same program (i.e. 2 or more Word documents = 1 Word taskbar button, 2 or more Excel spreadsheets = 1 Excel taskbar button, etc., etc.)

That means the Taskbar Tweaker option, which “allows you to minimize/restore a window” can’t determine which window it should minimize/restore because there’s more than one associated with that particular button.

Changing the combine option to never so there’s a “separate” button for each window should let it work as expected.

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