Taskbar risizes itself when I restart Windows

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I have my taskbar on the right-hand-side of my desktop.

I have the width set quite wide so that it can accommodate lots of
Quicklaunch icons.

I have 'Lock the Taskbar' checked, because I don't want the size to
change.

However, whenever I restart Windows, the Taskbar changes size - it
shrinks down to a width that is sort of one-and-a-half icons wide -
ugly as heck, and no use to me. For this reason, I always have to
manually re-size the Taskbar it whenever I log on.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
 
>I have my taskbar on the right-hand-side of my desktop.
>
> I have the width set quite wide so that it can accommodate lots of
> Quicklaunch icons.
>
> I have 'Lock the Taskbar' checked, because I don't want the size to
> change.
>
> However, whenever I restart Windows, the Taskbar changes size - it
> shrinks down to a width that is sort of one-and-a-half icons wide -
> ugly as heck, and no use to me. For this reason, I always have to
> manually re-size the Taskbar it whenever I log on.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.

I've had my taskbar docked to the left side on my monitor, and a bunch of
custom toolbars docked to the right, for years. I've never had any of them
resize or reposition themselves randomly.

I *don't* have the 'Lock the taskbar' option checked though. Wouldn't that
be ironic if that turned out to be the problem...

What about your other settings? I have Auto-hide unchecked, and 'Keep the
taskbar on top' checked. I keep Quick Launch disabled.
 
> I've had my taskbar docked to the left side on my monitor, and a bunch of
> custom toolbars docked to the right, for years. I've never had any of them
> resize or reposition themselves randomly.
>
> I *don't* have the 'Lock the taskbar' option checked though. Wouldn't that
> be ironic if that turned out to be the problem...
>
> What about your other settings? I have Auto-hide unchecked, and 'Keep the
> taskbar on top' checked. I keep Quick Launch disabled.- Hide quoted text -
>

Ironic isn't the word I'd choose!

Weirdly enough, docking the taskbar to the left works fine. There
seems to be something specifically wrong with docking the taskbar to
the right of the screen.

I don't use auto-hide, I _do_ have 'keep the taskbar on top' checked,
and I always use Quick Launch. I also have the standard clock
displayed.

Also weirdly enough, my work PC doesn't seem to suffer this problem,
it's only my home PC, which seems to imply that it's something to do
with installed software. No idea what though.
 
Check your GPO settings:
UserConf\AdmTempl\Desktop\Don’t save settings at exit
should be disabled.

Cheers,
Yuri
 
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