Height of menu line i Explorer / MSIE - Where is it stored ?

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

I have one new fresh installed XP SP2, and two computers upgraded from
98. One strange thing is showing. The height of the menuline (the one
with icons and the "throbber") is different (more wasted space on one)
and I can't find where this is stored (no Display options help).

See screenshot at: http://home.chello.no/~larse/MenuHeight.gif

Can somebody tell me how I get rid of the extra "blank space" (make
the menu line a bit less height)? It has to be some setting, right?

 

[David Candy]

Right click the toolbar - Customise and choose large/small icons.

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

David Candy skrev:

Right click the toolbar - Customise and choose large/small icons.

No, that's not it. Both are set to small icons allready.
Same for the "throbber" thing. Also both set to small.

I have cheked all Display settings and IE settings.
Even copied the Theme from on PC to the other.

Still no change. On the two upgraded ones the "throbber" icon is a bit
larger, and there ia bit extra space over/under the icons (the buttons
the buttons themselves are the same size).

Anyone ?

 

[CWatters]

Seen your screen shot. Try this...

1) Right click where it says "address" and make sure that there is NO tick
by "lock the toolbars"
2) Click on "address" and drag that tool bar to where you want it (eg to the
right on the row above)
3) Lock the tool bar again.

 

[CWatters]

Seen your screen shot. Try this...

1) Right click where it says "address" and make sure that there is NO tick
by "lock the toolbars"
2) Click on "address" and drag that tool bar to where you want it (eg to the
right on the row above)
3) Lock the tool bar again.

PS: You can move other tool bars around the same way.

 

[Drew Tognola]

Lars-Erik,
Not sure if it will work but, in TweakUI, you can shrink the size of the
frame height. Open TweakUI and expand (+) Internet Explorer > click small or
large Animation > change the Frame Height setting.

Download TweakUI:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Drew



I have one new fresh installed XP SP2, and two computers upgraded from
98. One strange thing is showing. The height of the menuline (the one
with icons and the "throbber") is different (more wasted space on one)
and I can't find where this is stored (no Display options help).

See screenshot at: http://home.chello.no/~larse/MenuHeight.gif

Can somebody tell me how I get rid of the extra "blank space" (make
the menu line a bit less height)? It has to be some setting, right?

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

CWatters skrev:

1) Right click where it says "address" and make sure that there is NO tick
by "lock the toolbars"
2) Click on "address" and drag that tool bar to where you want it (eg to the
right on the row above)
3) Lock the tool bar again.

But this doesn't help on the toolbar height :-(
It's still higher than it shold be :-(

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Drew Tognola skrev:

Lars-Erik,
Not sure if it will work but, in TweakUI, you can shrink the size of the
frame height. Open TweakUI and expand (+) Internet Explorer > click small or
large Animation > change the Frame Height setting.

1) Doesn't work on the standard icons
2) Doesn't help on self-made one either (small icon, toolbar not

Managed to wreck the new computer now as well. I installed X-Setup to
tweak something and the the toolbar in IE there to got higher. Tried
resetting all settings, but it did not get smaller again :-(

I have search registry all ways, but can't find this setting.

PS! Not even restoring a restore point got the right setting back

 

[CWatters]

CWatters skrev:


But this doesn't help on the toolbar height :-(
It's still higher than it shold be :-(

I had to edit your image to work out what you mean!..

It seems it needs to the windows logo/flag that requires the extra height.
Perhaps if you can find how that's generated you can fix it.