Friends and coworkers know that I can be a bit obsessive compulsive when it comes to the order of items on my windows taskbar.

Think Dennis Hoffman in Rainman when he almost misses Jeopardy….

“Visual Studio goes to the LEFT of Firefox!”

Taskbar Shuffle is clean, free application that takes care of this task in Windows XP and Vista.  Simply drag and drop until your heart is content.  You can also rearrange system tray icons.   Taskbar Shuffle recently released an x64 edition of their application.  Thank you!

Taskbar Shuffle is clean, perrrdy and generally minds its own business while using about 3 MB of memory.  Plus, their domain has “Nerd Cave” in it and that’s just fun to say!

Next up we have Taskix. Taskix is another freebie that packs many of the same features as Taskbar Shuffle.  Taskix natively supported Vista x64 before Taskbar Shuffle, so kudos there.  I like the configurable “wheel-click on taskbar” feature and set it to “Show Desktop”.  There is no SysTray icon while running; a feature that I actually like.  While the UI isn’t as great as Taskbar Shuffle, it leaves a tiny footprint while only using 756K of memory.

Based on the features I need, I’m going to have to crown Taskix victorious.  Gotta love that 756K footprint!  That is until Windows 7 is released when Microsoft FINALLY includes some of these features in the OS.