Quick Launch Back align on right after recent Updates

[Joe Gill]

After I applied 828750 and 828206, the Quick Launch bar start acting
strange....
(But logically looking at the 2 updates I cannot point to any cause/effect,
so it may be just coincidence, but it definitely started at the same moment)
Environment: Windows XP PRO with all Critical Fixes and MOST, but not all
recommended fixes applied.

I have Quick Launch toolbar enabled. Prior to the boot, it was aligned on
the left, next to the START.
After the boot, it was on the left, but the area at the bottom was two lines
'wide'.

If I dragged the bar by the left tip,I could slide it to the right, and it
would align to the right. Then the taskbar could be shrunk back to one
line....

However if you start dragging it back to the left, bang.expands to two
lines!

Any ideas how to get it back so I can align it on the left?

 

[Bee]

After I applied 828750 and 828206, the Quick Launch bar start acting
strange....
(But logically looking at the 2 updates I cannot point to any cause/effect,
so it may be just coincidence, but it definitely started at the same moment)
Environment: Windows XP PRO with all Critical Fixes and MOST, but not all
recommended fixes applied.

I have Quick Launch toolbar enabled. Prior to the boot, it was aligned on
the left, next to the START.
After the boot, it was on the left, but the area at the bottom was two lines
'wide'.

If I dragged the bar by the left tip,I could slide it to the right, and it
would align to the right. Then the taskbar could be shrunk back to one
line....

However if you start dragging it back to the left, bang.expands to two
lines!

Any ideas how to get it back so I can align it on the left?

The Taskbar (TB) has two tiers. To return to the default one tier:

Unlock the TB
Remove Quick Launch Toolbar (QL)
Remove *all* occupants of the TB
Drag the top edge of the TB down to one tier

Now, reverse the procedure:
Repopulate the TB
*Only then* put the QL back

Note: If QL is placed on the TB first (by default, next to the Start
button) before any other item, then the unoccupied portion of this solitary
tier will remain empty of any other item. Putting an additional item on the
TB will open a 2nd tier and the item moves in there. It seems odd, but a
closer look will uncover that in fact the QL extends right up to the
Notification (the clock) Area.

The problem I had some time ago of a two-tiered TB resolutely refusing to
return to a single tier led me to the above observation. This is not
exactly the same as yours but I just wonder if there is an extra item,
perhaps even hidden (?invisible, a fault), beside the three-icon QL. This
item is on the lower (of the two) tier, that is why when the QL is shrunk to
the Rt. ("aligned to the Rt.") leaving a space between the Start button and
itself, the extra item jumps up to this unoccupied space in the upper tier,
and, the lower tier, now being completely devoid of any occupant, collapses
and disappears. So the solution, if this hypothesis is correct, is to
remove QL, populate the single-tiered TB, then reintroduce QL. Just a
suggestion.

 

[cimex]

Smart!

The Taskbar (TB) has two tiers. To return to the default one tier:

Unlock the TB
Remove Quick Launch Toolbar (QL)
Remove *all* occupants of the TB
Drag the top edge of the TB down to one tier

Now, reverse the procedure:
Repopulate the TB
*Only then* put the QL back

Note: If QL is placed on the TB first (by default, next to the Start
button) before any other item, then the unoccupied portion of this solitary
tier will remain empty of any other item. Putting an additional item on the
TB will open a 2nd tier and the item moves in there. It seems odd, but a
closer look will uncover that in fact the QL extends right up to the
Notification (the clock) Area.

The problem I had some time ago of a two-tiered TB resolutely refusing to
return to a single tier led me to the above observation. This is not
exactly the same as yours but I just wonder if there is an extra item,
perhaps even hidden (?invisible, a fault), beside the three-icon QL. This
item is on the lower (of the two) tier, that is why when the QL is shrunk to
the Rt. ("aligned to the Rt.") leaving a space between the Start button and
itself, the extra item jumps up to this unoccupied space in the upper tier,
and, the lower tier, now being completely devoid of any occupant, collapses
and disappears. So the solution, if this hypothesis is correct, is to
remove QL, populate the single-tiered TB, then reintroduce QL. Just a
suggestion.