Hiding the Taskbar Label Only for Specific Applications
I run my taskbar buttons with the setting Combine when taskbar is full.
Q: Is there any way to force some of your pinned taskbar applications to only use the "icon" rather than the icon + label?
I am aware of the trick to force the size of the taskbar icons for all applications (detailed here and here), but there are some applications that I would like to only have the icon, and others where it is important to show icon and label together.
The state of the taskbar, whether "Icons only", "Icons when full", or "Icon+label", is internally called the "glom" level, and is dictated by the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\TaskbarGlomLevel
where the possible values are 0, 1, and 2 respectively. Unfortunately this is a taskbar-wide setting and there is no finer grain control to do what you want, which would be to make an icon-ified application wider to display title text, or an icon+text taskbar button smaller to hide the title text.
I found a solution! This little application allows lables to be hidden per application ID. I think it is exactly what you and I have been looking for.
http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker