Task bar shrinkage

G

Guest

Hello,

I have this weird problem, well, it's more of a nuisance, but still, I'd
like to fix it if possible.
I have moved my task bar to the right of my screen, so that it's vertical
now. It's three "spaces" wide, and with that I mean that I can put 3 icons
next to each other in QuickLaunch.
Unfortunately, whenever I start the computer, Windows shrinks the task bar
by one of these "spaces", and I have to manually resize it. As I said, no big
deal, but I am kind of tired of having to do this.
I tried leaving it alone, but then the next time Windows will shrink it down
to 1 "space", and that's really not good for me.
So, does anybody know what's going on here, and how I can tame the beast?

Thank you.
 
N

Newbie Coder

Niniel,

This is what you need to do:

Click START | RUN | Type 'regedit' (without quotes) & press ENTER

Naviage to:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

In the right pane, create the following:

Key Name: TaskbarSizeMove
Key Type: DWORD
Key Value: 0 = locked, 1 = unlocked

Close the registry editor
 
R

Rock

Hello,

I have this weird problem, well, it's more of a nuisance, but still, I'd
like to fix it if possible.
I have moved my task bar to the right of my screen, so that it's vertical
now. It's three "spaces" wide, and with that I mean that I can put 3 icons
next to each other in QuickLaunch.
Unfortunately, whenever I start the computer, Windows shrinks the task bar
by one of these "spaces", and I have to manually resize it. As I said, no
big
deal, but I am kind of tired of having to do this.
I tried leaving it alone, but then the next time Windows will shrink it
down
to 1 "space", and that's really not good for me.
So, does anybody know what's going on here, and how I can tame the beast?
Click to expand...

After setting the taskbar as you like it do you right click on a blank area
and choose Lock the taskbar? If that's not it you could try running edit on
Kelly's site:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 164: Restore Taskbar to Default Functionality

See the top of the page for info on running the edit.
 
N

Newbie Coder

Rock,

How will making it default functionality stop it being resized? It won't
 
G

Guest

As it turns out, locking the taskbar did not do the trick. I didn't edit the
registry, only checked "Lock the taskbar", but it was still locked after I
booted up.
 
N

Newbie Coder

Niniel,

The locking you done stopped the items from being moved around on it. The
registry entry I supplied goes one further
 
G

Guest

All right, changed the registry entry from 1 to 0... Hopefully that'll put an
end to this.
 
G

Guest

Editing the registry also did not work.
When I booted up the computer, the taskbar was again down to 2 spaces.
"Taskbar locked" was checked and I couldn't resize it myself, that is, of
course, until I unchecked it. Then the taskbar shrunk to 1 space width, and I
manually enlarged it to 3 again.
Maybe there's some other setting governing this behaviour; locking the bar
obviously is not it.
Too bad.
 
R

Rock

Editing the registry also did not work.
When I booted up the computer, the taskbar was again down to 2 spaces.
"Taskbar locked" was checked and I couldn't resize it myself, that is, of
course, until I unchecked it. Then the taskbar shrunk to 1 space width,
and I
manually enlarged it to 3 again.
Maybe there's some other setting governing this behaviour; locking the bar
obviously is not it.
Too bad.
Click to expand...

Did you try running the edit on Kelly's site that I referenced in my first
post to you?
 
M

mikeyhsd

you girls want to play in your sorority house, go somewhere else.



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Rock said:
Watch out, Rock....Newbie is lurking!
Click to expand...


<snip>

Lol...that's just white noise in background.
 
G

Guest

Yes, but no success. After I moved the bar from the bottom of the screen to
the right side, and enlarged it, it shrunk again after the reboot.
 
R

Rock

Yes, but no success. After I moved the bar from the bottom of the screen
to
the right side, and enlarged it, it shrunk again after the reboot.
Click to expand...


Hmmm, sorry then, I don't know. Any 3rd party themeing applications
installed?
 
G

Guest

Could be.
But then again, maybe not. :)
There's way too much interaction between accounts, I wouldn't be surprised
if the reason is that the taskbar settings are different for the various
accounts.

I'm not going to uninstall AG though; it just looks too nice.
 
R

Rock

Niniel said:
Could be.
But then again, maybe not. :)
There's way too much interaction between accounts, I wouldn't be surprised
if the reason is that the taskbar settings are different for the various
accounts.

I'm not going to uninstall AG though; it just looks too nice.
Click to expand...

<snip>

It probably wouldn't take to much to remove it to find out. In any event,
good luck and post back if you find a resolution.
 

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