WinXP Home Taskbar/Systray Too Large (Sizing Problem)

[John C. Pearson]

Don't know what happened, but the taskbar won't size down to it's
default size. I've tried alt-clicking it and checked all of the prefs.
If I close the quicklaunch bar, it sizes down to normal - but once I
open QL again - the height doubles - it wasn't like this before.

Anyone know what's going on with it?

tks

John

 

[Tim Slattery]

Don't know what happened, but the taskbar won't size down to it's
default size. I've tried alt-clicking it and checked all of the prefs.
If I close the quicklaunch bar, it sizes down to normal - but once I
open QL again - the height doubles - it wasn't like this before.

I don't know why Quicklauch would force the taksbar to resize.
But..this is supposed to key the taksbar from changing: right-click an
empty part of the taskbar and click "Lock the taskbar" if it's not
already checked. Remove the check if you need to resize the bar, then
replace the check to keep it from changing again.

 

[JP]

I don't know why Quicklauch would force the taksbar to resize.
But..this is supposed to key the taksbar from changing: right-click an
empty part of the taskbar and click "Lock the taskbar" if it's not
already checked. Remove the check if you need to resize the bar, then
replace the check to keep it from changing again.

Thanks Tim - I tried it, but to no avail. What I did next was to just
visually examine my laptop which also runs XP...I noticed that the small
vertical perforated lines that separate the toolbars were in different
places on my laptop than they were on on my wife's desktop. So I dragged
the QL bar to the other side, then slid the vertical separator over -
These two moves finally resized the taskbar to where I wanted it to be.
I don't know how it happened - probably grandkids messing around. ;o)

Thanks again!

John