Don't combine Taskbar Icons, but only display Icons [duplicate]

Maybe this is what you are looking for: Never Combine, Hide Labels.

  1. Go to your taskbar properties and set Taskbar Buttons to "Never Combine".
  2. Launch REGEDIT and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
  3. Create a new String Value and call it MinWidth.
  4. Modify the string properties and set the value to 56.
  5. Restart your computer, and now Windows 7 will never combine icons, but it will also hide the labels.

I have not tried it myself, but it looks promising