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I'm used to middle-clicking tabs in Firefox, and finding myself instinctively middle-clicking taskbar icons, expecting it to close them, and annoyed when it opens a new instance instead. Is there something that can make this happen?

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Dataflashsabot
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    It has exactly that behaviour, just move to the preview and then click with the middle button. There are a lots of mouse and hotkeys shortcuts, see de Windows help for more information. Some other useful hotkeys are by example: ctrl+shift+click: launch elevated, shift+click:launch a new instance, ctrl+click:go to the most recently used windows of the aplication clicked, etc, etc. – mjsr Feb 11 '11 at 22:15
  • @voodoomsr - please post this as an answer. –  Feb 12 '11 at 08:50
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    @voodoomsr Thanks, that helps but clicking on the actual icon not the preview would be much preferable. – Dataflashsabot Feb 12 '11 at 16:43
  • Duplicate of http://superuser.com/questions/24149/closing-programs-with-middle-click-in-windows-7?rq=1 (2009) – Jon Schneider Sep 14 '16 at 13:15
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    Does this answer your question? [Closing programs with middle-click in windows 7](https://superuser.com/questions/24149/closing-programs-with-middle-click-in-windows-7) – T.Todua Dec 23 '19 at 09:51
  • For Windows 11 see https://superuser.com/q/1709896/269897 – Paul Mar 18 '22 at 14:05

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One of the very nice things that 7 Taskbar Tweaker can do is "Middle Click -> Close".

http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker

(Throw that man a bone! Here is a man who takes many of the idiocies that MS has thrown onto us & brings some common sense & thought to the table. MS should really pay him for his fixes.)

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