Win 98 - possible to resequence task bar items???

Factual Questions
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I’m using a PC, running Win 98 (perfectly adequate for all my needs). There is a grey task bar running along the bottom of the main desktop window. Each time I open an application, a corresponding panel opens on this task bar. If I open several applications, the panels on the task bar, reading from left to right, show the order in which I opened them.

Is there any way to re-sequence or re-order these task bar panels without closing and re-opening apps in the desired sequence? Can I change the order so that they are no longer necessarily in the order in which I opened the apps? I’m pretty sure it can’t be done, but I’d be delighted to be wrong.

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Not through any natural means through the operating system. Whether there is some way to change it through a third-party app I’m not sure, but I suspect you can’t.

I hope Microsoft decides to do a little bit more with the taskbar one of these days. It has the potential to become a nice organizational tool if some time was put into it.

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What you describe is possible in Windows XP; in 98, it is not (not by any means of the OS, anyway. There may be third party software that can do this).