v1.6.4

Faster

• Clicking a group opens it almost instantly. Until now every click started the panel from scratch: .NET, WPF and a first paint, about 0.9 s. Now the panel stays loaded for a while after you use it (and while the cursor is near the taskbar, if Open on hover is on), and a click just hands it the group. Measured on real pinned groups: 0.1 to 0.2 s instead of 0.8 to 1 s. The first click after a long break still takes the second, because nothing is kept running for nothing.
• The waiting panel gives its memory back. While it waits off screen it compacts and trims itself, so Task Manager shows it at about 6 MB. It goes away on its own after ten minutes without use.

Thanks to everyone on Reddit who pointed out the delay.

Install

Download TaskbarGroupsFluent-Setup.exe below and run it. If you already have it, the app offers the update when it opens. TaskbarGroupsFluent-Setup-Offline.exe carries the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime inside, for PCs without internet.