TaskbarX

TaskbarX for Windows allows you to take a more proactive approach to design your desktop.  The app offers a number of different taskbar styles, including transparent, transparent gradient, opaque, blur and acrylic.  Users can also choose to alter the color and transparency of their taskbar manually.  TaskbarX also allows users to set a custom start button or hide it if they so choose.  There are 42 different animations for taskbar changes to choose from, including "none", and TaskbarX for Windows supports all taskbar settings, including the vertical taskbar and unlimited taskbars.  Users can change animation speeds to their liking, or animations can simply be disabled for a more streamlined approach to altering the taskbar.  TaskbarX for Windows automatically centers the taskbar icons, but it does allow for custom offset positions depending on user preference.  With this app, users can center the icons between the Start button, search and task view on one side and the tray icons and clock on the other, hide the tray area, and even include customized taskbar segments.  Taskbar X for Windows can support unlimited monitors.

This app offers a kind of customized approach to organizing your desktop far beyond the standard settings available in Windows 10.  It gives the taskbar a dock-like feel: the icons move to the center or to a chosen position whenever an icon is added or removed.  Rather than rely on standard settings, Taskbar X provides a more nuanced approach, letting users decide what suits their needs.  TaskbarX is built for Windows 10; on Windows 11 it can only change the taskbar background style, and only up to build 22621.1265.

To ensure the app runs at startup, simply open "TaskbarX Configurator" in the start menu and click the apply button, which creates a scheduled task.

TaskbarX is free, portable and open source under the MIT license on GitHub, while the paid Microsoft Store version is functionally identical and adds automatic updates.  The GitHub project was archived in 2025, and 1.7.8.0 is its last release.

Allows you more control over where your taskbar icons are placed.

Features:

• Change the style and color of your taskbar
• Change the positions of your icons
• Animations for taskbar changes
• All taskbar settings supported
• Unlimited monitors supported