Don't combine Taskbar Icons, but only display Icons [duplicate]
Maybe this is what you are looking for: Never Combine, Hide Labels.
- Go to your taskbar properties and set Taskbar Buttons to "Never Combine".
- Launch REGEDIT and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
- Create a new String Value and call it MinWidth.
- Modify the string properties and set the value to 56.
- 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