Need help adjusting the task bar?

[Don]

Hey all,

Yesterday, I found myself in a position I had to format and clean install XP
Pro SP2. I have since, got all my post SP2 updates.

I chose to show the quick launch , and have been putting some shortcuts on
it for my programs.

Somehow, I managed to get my taskbar to double heigth, where you see not
only the time, but the day and date below it as well. I prefer having it
just single heigth, where it only shows the time.
I unlock the task bar, and try to drag it down, but cannot seem to do so.
If, while holding the mouse button down and dragging it down, I move it far
enough, it basically dissappears from the screen, showing just a very small
part of the bar, just enough to grab it and drag it back up, to where it is
once again double heigth.

Any tips, on how I can get this back to where it was, would be greatly
appreciated!



Don

 

[Malke]

Don wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Yesterday, I found myself in a position I had to format and clean install XP
> Pro SP2. I have since, got all my post SP2 updates.
>
> I chose to show the quick launch , and have been putting some shortcuts on
> it for my programs.
>
> Somehow, I managed to get my taskbar to double heigth, where you see not
> only the time, but the day and date below it as well. I prefer having it
> just single heigth, where it only shows the time.
> I unlock the task bar, and try to drag it down, but cannot seem to do so.
> If, while holding the mouse button down and dragging it down, I move it far
> enough, it basically dissappears from the screen, showing just a very small
> part of the bar, just enough to grab it and drag it back up, to where it is
> once again double heigth.

What happens is that the end "margin" of the QuickLaunch toolbar has
gotten so far over to the right that it is now down below. Unlock the
Taskbar and then "grab" the dotted line on the bottom bar and drag it up
to immediately to the right of the QuickLaunch icons. Now you've
successfully made the QuickLaunch toolbar shorter and can "grab" the top
bar of the Taskbar and "push" it down to the regular one-tier height.


Malke
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[Don]

"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:OWZEBZLRIHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Don wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Yesterday, I found myself in a position I had to format and clean install
>> XP Pro SP2. I have since, got all my post SP2 updates.
>>
>> I chose to show the quick launch , and have been putting some shortcuts
>> on it for my programs.
>>
>> Somehow, I managed to get my taskbar to double heigth, where you see not
>> only the time, but the day and date below it as well. I prefer having it
>> just single heigth, where it only shows the time.
>> I unlock the task bar, and try to drag it down, but cannot seem to do so.
>> If, while holding the mouse button down and dragging it down, I move it
>> far enough, it basically dissappears from the screen, showing just a very
>> small part of the bar, just enough to grab it and drag it back up, to
>> where it is once again double heigth.
>
> What happens is that the end "margin" of the QuickLaunch toolbar has
> gotten so far over to the right that it is now down below. Unlock the
> Taskbar and then "grab" the dotted line on the bottom bar and drag it up
> to immediately to the right of the QuickLaunch icons. Now you've
> successfully made the QuickLaunch toolbar shorter and can "grab" the top
> bar of the Taskbar and "push" it down to the regular one-tier height.
>
>
> Malke
> --

Malke, you are awesome, I would have never figured that one out. It worked
just fine.

Many, many thanks!!


Don