Task Settings

The GeoShell "TasksService" is used to provide information about running applications to various plugins and menus ... there are various settings related to this service in GeoShell's [User Interface Configuration] section

You can set these settings by navigating in regedit to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Geo\GeoShell\ShellUI\Tasks

In previous versions of GeoShell (before R4 11.9) these settings were in GeoShell\services\tasks, those settings are no longer used, and may be ignored or removed.

The Available Settings

All of the settings in ShellUI\Tasks are simple on/off settings which turn a feature on (when set to 1) or off (when set to 0).

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All of the rest of these items apply to the menu that posp up when you click on the button for "grouped" applications, or when you hold Ctrl and right-click an application button.

(Groups) Show Close - Turns the "Close" menu item on/off (This allows you to exit multiple apps at once)
(Groups) Show Tile Horizontal - Turns the "Tile Horizontal" menu item on/off (This allows you to stack windows side-by-side).
(Groups) Show Tile Vertical - Turns the "Tile Vertical" menu item on/off (This allows you to stack windows one-above-the-other).
(Groups) Show Cascade - Turns the "Cascade" menu item on/off (this allows you to arrenge windows in cascading order of when they were last used).
(Groups) Show Minimize Others - Turns the "Minimize Others" menu item on/off (This allows you to minimize all except the selected apps).
(Groups) Show Minimize These - Turns the "Minimize These" menu item on/off (This allows you to minimize the selected apps).
(Groups) Show OnTop - Turns the "On Top" menu item on/off (This allows you to force a window to be "Always On Top").
(Groups) Show Fade - Turns the "Fade" sub-menu on/off (On Windows 2000 or later, this allows you to change the transparency level of an application).
(Groups) Show Kill Tasks - Turns the "Kill Task" menu item on/off (This allows you to kill the process responsible for a frozen application, as though you were in Task Manager).