Just to confirm, it doesn't look like it crashes when resizing the taskbar now.

Hi Jon,

I have just put this version on this morning, ill let you know if it solves the name/icon corruption issue

Just downloaded - will be upgrading to the Windows 7 RC build 7100 in a few, so I'll test on both 7077 and the RC and report back.

Wow! Just...Wow!

Jon, see the attached pic below - this is *awesome*.

May I post the same pic over at Windows 7 forums, or would you like for me to wait until this build is public?

Also, can I assume that since you've started getting DWM integration working like this that soon the rest of the feature set of DF will (hopefully) be available to Win7, or is it too early for me to start celebrating?

Hi Jon,

I've been running this build and it seems to have fixed the task bar corruption problem

Ill leave it another couple of days, but so far so good!

Installing Windows 7 RC over the beta today. Looks very promising.

Unfortunately, I am finishing up semester end projects, and finals are next week - I may install the RC here in a couple of days, but more likely I'll wait until afterfinals (and when the RC is officially out)...

It's unusual in that I have been off the official beta since about 20 days after it came out

Thanks for the chance to post the screen shot. While I realize it is *early* your competitors that have been in the game a lot longer still aren't doing this either, so you're definitely one up on the game now....

And I want the world to know it.

re: VMs - Jon, which solution are you using, and if it is VBox, have you found a way to *not* have to reinstall the VMs from scratch - that is what is holding me back at the moment from making many VMs right now....

Also, Hopefully in about a week's time I get the distinct pleasure of installing Server 2008 (or perhaps the R2 Beta) on a 32 core monster server with 32 GB of RAM....

..just dropped a plug for DF over in the Windows 7 forums

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproui/thread/7235aa69-2daa-41a8-9940-cebbbd95d6f7?prof=required&ppud=4

Good job, benway - we'll do Jon proud yet!

I made my post over at sevenforums.com: http://www.sevenforums.com/software/6087-ultramon-replacement-5.html#post81335

One of the forum members has a working prototype of something developed specifically for Win7, see the next post: http://www.sevenforums.com/software/6087-ultramon-replacement-6.html#post81845

Jon, you might want to take a good look at it - it seems as if this guy might have the taskbar hooking working out perfectly (or else that is a mash-up of just screen shots with no real code - but this guy sounds legit from other posts I have seen).

Finally, check out http://www.sevenforums.com/software/6087-ultramon-replacement-6.html#post82245 - using both DF and UM together it seems you can have targeted apps - IOW, only apps on each monitor show up in that monitor's taskbar....

Might be a good workaround for those who simply cannot live without this feature currently in DF - although personally I also think it would be a bad idea to mention your competitor's product(s) on your own web pages in this manner

As I mentioned over in the Task Se7en thread, I think these two programs can co-exist peacefully , DF being a full suite and the other being a stand-alone taskbar... (DF being more popular with the masses because of the 'full package' )

I agree - with DF already offering so many other features besides the taskbar, I don't think I'd be able to let it go....