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Introduction
   Main features.
   Special abilities.





  TaskBow taskbar replacer is taskbar replacement for Windows OS (NT, 2000, XP and Vista). TaskBow can colour task in taskbar, and it is useful: you can find task you are looking quicker, because human eyes has good reaction on different colours.

TaskBow allows you to collect and reorder tasks in task panels. To do it, just click and keep mouse button, then drag it in new position and release mouse button.

TaskBow, in contrast to Windows taskbar, give you quick access to tasks in panels. To get access you just need move mouse over taskbar:


  Colours.
Taskbow can assign colours to tasks. By default, when you start it first time, TaskBow has few colours assignments for applications, people work with usually: MS notepad, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook. Also, Taskbow contains "pink" assignment to all windows with word "Media" in the caption. So, if you run MS Media Player, or open Explorer in folder "C:\Media\", the task in taskbar will be of pink colour. Also, you can assign colour to program name(name of file).

To set colours, press button "Colours assignment" on main TaskBow window. You will see Colours Assignment window:



here you can to Add, Edit of Delete colours assignments.

Order.
Order of assignments is important. Higher assignment has higher priority. If two assignments match to one task, the higher one will be used.

Add/Edit.
To add new or edit existing colour assignment you will use one window:



This window can be open from Colour Assignment dialog, by double click in list or press [+] of [*] buttons

Masks.
Mask allows you to assign one colours for many task. As you saw, "*Media*" will work with Media Player and with folder contains "Media" in path. Also all windows with "Media" in captions.
So, you can use "*" and "?" to make masks. For example, you use "*Media*" as the mask, it means, that this mask will be matched with any string which begins, contains of finished by work "Media", successfully.
If you type "???Media", it will mean - any string with begins from any three symbols and which finished by "Media", for example: "C:\Media", but not "C:\MyMedia" or "C:\Mary\Media".

For example, see, how to add new colour assignment:
1. You can click to the task by right mouse and choose "Add/Edit colours for this task"



2. Then you'll see colour assignmet dialog for the task. Fields "Window caption" and "Program name" will be filled automatically. So, we replace "Document 1" by "*", and remove file name.



3. Ok, now we choose colours. To do this, we must click buttons "Colour" and "Font colour".



4. And in Color dialog we will choose colour.



5. Well, now we can choose fonts.



6. Now we choose all settings for our task, close window, finally.



7. And what we'll see in Taskbow:




  Context menu.
Context menu of each task allows to do next things:
1. Create new instance of the task.



2. Show small info about the task.






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