My laptop came bundled with Windows Vista Home Premium and although I've heard all the bad reviews and feedbacks on Vista, I'm pretty much ok with it. Sure I get pretty annoyed sometimes of all the security popups I get whenever I try to install a program but I can live it. One more thing that I don't like with Vista is the huge amount of space it allots for restore points. The last restore point I created, took up 19G of my hard disk space. Crazy huh?

Well going back though, Windows 7 has been released and I've been itching to change my OS but for the meantime, I found a simple tweak to make my taskbar look and behave just like the taskbar in Windows 7.

*Since we are going to be doing some minor tweaks in the registry, I recommend creating a restore point first, just in case a blunder happens.

Ready to iconize? Follow these steps:

• To open the Registry Editor, type regedit in the RUN dialog box and press enter.
• Look for the line
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
• In right-side pane, create a new String value MinWidth and set its value to -255.

• Then Log off and restart your system. Open a program and see the changes! 

If you don't want to go through that manually, you can just download this registry script. Extract the file and double click on the Install.reg file. In the confirmation window, just accept it.