You may usually prefer the new Windows 7 style of the taskbar, featuring just the icons of all open applications, reserving space and supporting better focus. There are conditions under which you might prefer, at least for a while, to see the text beside these taskbar icons, e.g., when you use programs that display real time information at their taskbar buttons, such as emule, torrent clients, etc.
In such cases, a keyboard shortcut that would instantly display this text would be ideal. This is the purpose of the Taskbar Labels.
Taskbar Labels is a portable application: just unpack the contents of the zip file to a folder of your choice (the default is TaskbarLabels) and create a shortcut to the executable wherever you like – in your startup folder, if you want the program to run with Windows).
The default keyboard shortcut to hide or reveal taskbar icon labels is Ctrl+F11, but you can change it at will, by right clicking the icon of Taskbar Labels at the System Tray. First time it runs, Taskbar Labels will pop up a message; after its ini file (simple text file containing its configuration) is created, you won’t see any other pop ups. Tweak your Windows 7 taskbar using this small application.
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