Group your shortcuts into a single taskbar icon. A modern WPF / .NET 10 rewrite of Taskbar Groups, with a Fluent (WinUI 3-style) interface.
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| Click a group | Or just rest the cursor on it |
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Recorded on a real Windows 11 taskbar. Open on hover is off by default; switch it on in the quick bar.
Each group becomes one taskbar button. Click it and a small panel opens above it with every app in the group.
- 🧩 Any installed app, desktop or Microsoft Store, plus folders and even other groups.
- 🎨 Group icon from an image, a colour emoji or the group's own apps.
- 🪟 Windows 11 glass in four layouts: grid, row, column or list, with a live preview while you edit.
- 🖱️ Open on hover, no click needed (off by default).
- 📋 Right-click a pinned group for Open all and Edit group.
- ⚙️ Per-app options: rename, launch arguments, run as administrator.
- 💾 Export, import and duplicate groups, or bring them over from Taskbar Groups or AppGroup.
- 🌗 Light or dark, English or Spanish: follows Windows, or pick them in the quick bar.
- ⬇️ Updates itself when a new version is out, if you say so.
| Your groups | Group editor |
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- Download TaskbarGroupsFluent-Setup.exe and run it. It installs for your user only and downloads the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime if it is missing.
- Open Taskbar Groups from the Start menu.
Prefer the Store? Get it from the Microsoft Store: the same app, signed by Microsoft and kept up to date by Windows. It can lag a version behind the installer while each update is reviewed.
No internet on that PC?
TaskbarGroupsFluent-Setup-Offline.exeon the Releases page carries .NET inside. If Windows warns about an "unknown publisher", click More info → Run anyway: the app isn't signed with a paid certificate.
- Click Add group, give it a name and an icon, and add apps with App, Folder or Group.
- Pick the panel's look under Panel and click Save group.
- Click Pin to taskbar: the app opens the folder with the shortcut highlighted, and you right-click it, then Show more options, then Pin to taskbar. Windows 11 doesn't let apps pin themselves.
Requires the .NET 10 SDK. Run dotnet build TaskbarGroupsFluent.sln -c Release and start TaskbarGroups.App. The folder the installer packs comes from:
dotnet publish src/TaskbarGroups.App -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained false -o dist/TaskbarGroupsFluent
dotnet publish src/TaskbarGroups.Hover -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained false -o dist/TaskbarGroupsFluent
dotnet publish src/TaskbarGroups.Background -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained false -o dist/TaskbarGroupsFluent/BackgroundThe installer is built with Inno Setup from installer/TaskbarGroupsFluent.iss. TaskbarGroups.Core holds the logic, TaskbarGroups.App the main window and editor, TaskbarGroups.Background the panel, and TaskbarGroups.Hover the optional watcher for open on hover.
Built on tjackenpacken/taskbar-groups, the original app, and PikeNote/taskbar-groups-pike-beta, the community fork this rewrite started from. Uses WPF-UI and SkiaSharp.
Open source only helps if somebody actually reads the code, and almost nobody does. So instead of asking you to trust this project, here is the prompt to check it: point your own AI agent at this repository and get a security report, in your language, in a few minutes, even if you do not know how to program.
Open AI-AUDIT.md and paste it into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot or whatever you use. It is the same prompt in every public repository here, so you can compare.
ES: No hace falta que te fíes. Abre AI-AUDIT.md, pega ese texto en tu IA y te dirá en tu idioma qué hace este programa de verdad: qué envía por internet, qué toca en tu ordenador y qué ejecuta al instalarse.
Taskbar Groups Fluent is free and has no paid version. If it saves you time, you can buy me a coffee (the app has the same button in its bottom bar and in Settings), and a ⭐ on the repo helps more people find it.
MIT, same as the projects above.