How to change Google chrome windows order in the Windows task panel

Question

Usually I need much pages to be open at one time. So there is a Windows task panel. When I open multiple Google Chrome windows by Ctrl+N they appear in some order at the Windows task panel. Also in each windows I can create multiple tabs with pages (Ctrl+T).

I would like to create certain order of Google chrome Windows in the task panel. Say first is window with multiple tabs of my email accounts (gmail, yahoo mail etc). Second is window with tabs of google drive pages (different spreadsheets and docs files pages).

But sometime (I don't know why and how) the order changes itsef. Say window with emails tabs goes down... And then to create initial order I need to close all the windows and reopen them.

Could you please help with following: 1. Why order changes? 2. How can I change the order without closing and reopening all the windows? 3. If I create set of startup pages in the Google Chrome settings all of them open in the separate tabs but within one window. May I create a setting to open them in certain order of windows on each startup of Google Chrome?

Solution 1

You could use 7 Taskbar Tweaker, which works on Windows 10 too.

The Grouping section under the middle pane has an option to "Drag within/between groups using right mouse button"

Solution 2

For 1, this could be a few things, but I do not have enough information to work on.

For 2. Drag a tab out of the window. This will make this new tab the last window opened. Then shift click the left most and right most tab, and drag them into the new window. This will keep open all the tabs while moving the window to the last one.

For 3, I think you can only open one window without third party extensions. You can however have Chrome re-open from last session, which will let you restart Chrome exactly from where you left off.

Solution 3

I usually do the close/reopen window trick to get the order right.

The steps are following:

1. I close a window I want it to go all on the right/bottom
2. I then click one of any other open remaining Chrome window to be sure that Chrome has the keyboard focus
3. I finally hit CTRL+SHIF+T (Windows) or COMMAND+SHIFT+T (MAC) to trigger the Chrome's command "reopen last closed window/tab". It will reopen the window I closed at (1.) and place it all the way to the right/bottom of the Chrome's window list.

Repeat it for several windows until you get the order you want, it takes a bit of practice to get the order right. One rule is to never close the window you want as leftmost/first.

Solution 4

One thing you can do is close all your windows in the order you want it from left to right. Then reopen all your windows by pressing Ctrl + Shift + T.

Solution 5

Go to fullscreen into Google Chrome pressing F11 twice.

Then that Chrome window will go the bottom of the list.

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Comments

[Cat]

Sadly this no longer seems to work. (Chrome 50-ish and up.)

[Nikita 웃]

Awesome! Works well even on Windows 10 creators update! :)

[Kodak]

This works great but unfortunately you need to do it every time you close/reopen the chrome :( Best thing would be to reorder it within chrome itself

[wp78de]

This may not work perfectly in all cases, i.e. if the pages to close have some dynamic content, but it's a surprisingly easy method that works fine in most cases. Thanks.

[DrLightman]

Duplicate answer

[empleat]

This is driving me crazy! I work with large amounts of Windows, not able to reorder their positions is torture, god windows is so stupid... Did you find a solution within Chrome?!

[empleat]

This is too vehement for me! I have so many tabs quickly (even if I Am compartmentalizing them to separate windows) I can't even shift click them! And I open new windows a lot, this approach would take hours upon hours... I have usually like 20+ windows...

[DrLightman]

It's not my fault if Windows hasn't implemented a native way to do that, I only offered a workaround. Thank you for the kind downvote @empleat

[empleat]

It is not personal, shouldn't you downvote here based on whether or not solution works. Ye BTW microsoft 1 iq...