Review: Oscar's Multi-Monitor taskBar

Windows only shows the taskbar on your primary monitor. When an application on the taskbar is restored, it will show up on the monitor where it was last shown. Oscar's Multi-Monitor taskBar V2.1 is a freeware utility that extends the taskbar onto a second and third monitor. This makes it more intuitive to work with multiple monitors: You can see immediately, before switching to an application, where it will open, and you can see in a glance how your applications are distributed across your monitors. It sounds like a small thing, but to me it made a big difference. The utility also includes another smaller functionality: It adds buttons in the upper right corner of windows, for moving them between the monitors with one click (without this feature you need to restore from a maximized state, drag and then maximize again to achieve the same thing). I don't move my windows around a whole lot, so this is not a big deal to me, but it works fine. The taskbar also includes a "Clipboard Extender" which gives some clipboard functionality. I haven't used this, and it has not really anything to do with your multiple monitors, so in my opinion it shouldn't have been included, but it can be disabled easily. There are several annoyances with Oscar's Multi-Monitor taskBar: The clock is redundantly shown on both taskbars (and probably all three, if you have three); also, it is not shown according to the regional settings, so for many people the format of the two clocks will be different) and the move button sometimes shows up above other buttons. Despite this, I'm keeping it on my system. The annoyances are not that important, and the utility is useful and seems stable. I the long run I hope Windows Vista will add support for extending the toolbar, so we won't depend on third-party software for this. Verdict: Useful, free, a few annoyances