Taskbar Height

[Steve]

After setting my taskbar height at four lines and locking the taskbar; on
reboot, taskbar height is reduced in height to two lines. Etc., Etc. ......

Help would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

WindowsXP default determines that four (4) lines is not necessary,
thus defaults to 2 lines. Locking it would only put it where you want
it, not the number of lines. Why would anyone want four lines, it would
cover a lot of your screen view???
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[Brian A.]

Click on A to Z here: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp.htm
Click T and check through the different Taskbar solutions.

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[Don Smith]

Brian, one thing I can't find, or don't know the proper keyword, is how to
have a file (or SC) on the SysTray without having it open when the computer
is rebooted. Can you help with that?

Thanks,
Don

 

[Brian A.]

A bit more detail would be nice to be sure of what you're asking, but I'll take a
stab at how I understand it as you wrote it:

Right click on the programs icon in the systray to see if there is an option to
disable it from loading on boot.

Open the program/s in question and check their options to see if they have one to
disable it from loading on boot.

Remove any entries from the Startup folder that you do not want to load on boot.

Look in the Registry under these keys to either remove the entry or comment it out to
disable it from loading on boot:
Start > Run, type in: regedit and hit enter. Navigate to the following keys (not all
keys may be present):
hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\current version\run
hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\current version\RunOnce
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\current version\run
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\current version\RunOnce
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\current version\RunOnceEx
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\current version\RunServices
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\current version\RunServicesOnce

Remove the entire entry in a key by right clicking in the right pane on the data
name in the Name column, click Delete in the popup menu, confirm deletion and close
regedit.
Always backup the registry or any key(s) before making any changes so that you may
import the keys back in should anything go wrong. Haphazardly removing keys in the
registry is very dangerous and can render your system useless. Be 100% sure of what
you are doing and what you remove can be safely done.

How to back up, edit, and restore the registry in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/en-us

Description of the Microsoft Windows registry
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986/en-us

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[Don Smith]

Sorry Brian I thought it was clear. But to be a little more specific, but
wordy:

I have a program EditPad Pro, I'd like to see in the System Tray after a
reboot. But when I put that program's short cut in the Start Up folder the
program opens as well. I don't want it to open but to simply place a Short
Cut in the System Tray.

Ergo, the program's icon is not currently in the System Tray so I can't
click on it.

HTH

Don

 

[Brian A.]

You don't use the Startup folder, you select the check box "Show EditPad icon in
system tray" in EditPad Pro's Preferences.
See the last graphic on bottom right here:
http://www.editpadpro.com/prefsgeneral.html


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[Don Smith]

Hmmm...guess I'd best contact them. I had that option selected but the icon
doesn't appear in the system tray unless it is run once.

Don

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have a program EditPad Pro, I'd like to see in the System Tray
after a reboot.

Why?


But when I put that program's short cut in the Start
Up folder the program opens as well.

Exactly. That's what the startup folder is. Any shortcut placed there
automatically starts up.

I don't want it to open but to
simply place a Short Cut in the System Tray.

Ergo, the program's icon is not currently in the System Tray so I
can't click on it.

It sounds like you want to have a handy shortcut icon so you can start the
program whenever you want it. If so, you don't want to put a shortcut in the
Startup Folder; just drag a shortcut to it to the Quick Launch Bar.

 

[Don Smith]

Ken,

I'd like to to reply to *the* newsgroup if you would kindly tell me which
on is the *one* to reply to. ;-)

Why should I go to the trouble of .. .. .. to get the SC to the SysTray
every time I (re)boot? Seems like a lot of unnecessary work for such a
simply task. There are currently more than a dozen items in the SysTray
put there by programs (only 2 are not hidden, which I know is an option) so
why can't an XP user do the same?

Don

__ Why ask why a person asks for help on an item?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Ken,

I'd like to to reply to *the* newsgroup if you would kindly tell me
which on is the *one* to reply to. ;-)

The list if them all is fine. But let me also add that most of us here
follow all the groups on your crossposted list, so the crossposting isn't
really necessary.

Why should I go to the trouble of .. .. .. to get the SC to the
SysTray every time I (re)boot? Seems like a lot of unnecessary work
for such a simply task.

No, I didn't at all suggest that you should. See below.

There are currently more than a dozen items
in the SysTray put there by programs (only 2 are not hidden, which I
know is an option) so why can't an XP user do the same?

As I tried to indicate in my previous message, you are misunderstanding what
the system tray is and what it's for. It's a place for icons for some
*running* programs. The icon is typically there to let you access the
running program and set options for it.

There are *no* shortcuts in the tray, and neither programs nor you can put a
shortcut there.

The tray is *not* a place for icons that you want to use to start programs.
That's the purpose of the Quick Launch Bar. Unless I am misunderstanding
what you want to accomplish, you should put and keep the shortcut there, on
the Quick Launch Bar. Put it on the Quick Launch Bar and it will stay
there--you don't need to put it back every time you reboot.

As far as I can see, you are confusing the System Tray and the Quick Launch
Bar. They are two very different things.

Why ask why a person asks for help on an item?

Because people often ask the wrong question. They want to accomplish A, they
think they need to do B to accomplish A, so they ask how to do B. If we know
that it's really A you want to accomplish, we can often give you much better
help.

Because I suspected that that was the case here (correct me if I'm wrong), I
asked why. You want to accomplish A (have a shortcut on the task bar to let
you start some program), think you have to do B (put a shortcut in the
System Tray) to accomplish it, so you asked the wrong question entirely.

 

[prakchan064]

Reducing height of Ask Bar

Right click on empty space in deskop>properties>Appearance>Advanced>scroll to and click on Active Title Bar>adjust height .