ninjakivi2

No, it's not partial grouping. The expected behavior is that when I launch a task/window using pinned icon on my taskbar it should disappear, or be replaced with task window, just like it is by default in windows. Currently clicking a pinned icon opens a new window, and I can click it indefinitely for more windows, which is my problem.

Ah, took me a while to find that the option has a checkbox now; I'm too used to set this to 'never group' hah. First, thank you very much for that; I finally gotten rid of windhawk and 7+ tweaker for good now and I don't need to worry they will break eventually. Now, while all works great, I have a slight issue with pinned items. Clicking a pinned program will just open a new group and not hide the pinned icon, while, unpinning the program and pinning it again gets rid of the icon, at least temporarily. I would like to kindly ask for implementation where if at least one task window is opened the taskbar icon is hidden.

To clear some confusion, I gave a nice example of how I'm using my taskbar efficiently above. However, I noticed the blogpost that you linked, and in the video that @sazkion posted there are discussions of dynamic grouping or regrouping; not really what I or the OP are asking for here. What I personally want is literally a single checkbox just like in 7+taskbar tweaker to permanently ungroup all task windows from each other on my taskbar, just like shown on OP's latest screenshot. Like said before, this ensures that every window I open has its taskbar task to the right of every other task, and that in case I'm working on let's say 3 different issues at the same time I can keep all windows relevant ot the issue next to each other, that's how I roll.

+1 for this feature. Recently I have updated Start is back, and it looks like the latest version is incompatible with 7+ taskbar tweaker, so I'm looking for a way to revert to older version so I can ungroup icons on my taskbar again. I also installed Windhawk, but it seems incompatible with start all back as well. Note that the feature to ungroup taskbar icons is the 6th most popular mod on that platform: To expand as to why this feature is needed: It's quite simple. Let's say I'm working on something, and have 7 tabs open. Now, I get a call that someone needs something from me, and I need to open explorer to fetch and image and paint to maybe change image format. When I open said program windows, I want to ensure they open to the right of all my task list, so I can quickly recognize where they are, to quickly close them afterwards, and be able to navigate between them. I cannot do that if I already had explorer or paint opened before; these tasks would open in arbitrary places on my taskbar and I don't like that. I have been using 7+taskbar tweaker for about 10 years now as it provided me with necessary features, but now that it's incompatible with start is back I'm quite upset. The perfect solution would be if start all back provided me with that one single feature that is missing so I don't have to rely on more tools to do the job.