Taskbar location

[Guest]

I don't know how it happened, but my taskbar has moved to right side of my
screen to it's full height.....and I can't seem to move it back to it's
horizontal position at the bottom of my screen. The taskbar is not locked
and is not willing to be dragged back. Any suggestions please?

 

[Michael T]

So you're saying this does not work?

Moving the cursor to around the middle of the Taskbar, holding down the left
mouse button and pulling (dragging) it back down to the bottom.

 

[Michael T]

Are you certain you are moving the mouse far enough to the bottom of the
screen before letting go?

 

[Guest]

Yes....that is correct. It will not drag back to it's proper
location....even when the cursor is moved way down. Thank you.

 

[Michael T]

Perhaps this will help.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

line 164

 

[CReWdog]

*I don't know how it happened, but my taskbar has moved to right sid
of my
screen to it's full height.....and I can't seem to move it back t
it's
horizontal position at the bottom of my screen. The taskbar is no
locked
and is not willing to be dragged back. Any suggestions please? *

Hi

LEFT click on the taskbar & simply drag it back to the bottom of th
screen. You may have to rightclick on it first & uncheck the "loc
toolbar" option (I'm on a Win2000 system right now & lock toolbar i
not used in Win2000)
Regards

CReWdo


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CReWdo

 

[Guest]

That really helped.....thank you. I was able to correct it. Cheers

 

[Michael T]

Yea! You solved it.

Thank you for posting back.

That really helped.....thank you. I was able to correct it. Cheers

 

[Guest]

thanks your help for Sierra also helped me I had the same problem

 

[Guest]

Hi
I had same problem and could not resolve but clicked at the bottom right
hand corner of vertical coloumand then dragged it to bottom of screen. It was
a success after many hours of trying.
Hope this makes sense

 

[Guest]

Thank you Michael T. I have try everyone else's solution & yours worked
IMMEDIATELY! I had been holding down the right mouse button, dah---!

 

[Guest]

Hi
I have same problem on my XP Home system. Strangely this solution won't work
at all, because upper edge of my taskbar is stuck to top of screen and
taskbar only stretches down almost over half of screen until it stops. I only
want back my basic one line taskbar at the bottom of screen. Thanks in
advance for help!

 

[Elmo]

Hi
I have same problem on my XP Home system. Strangely this solution won't work
at all, because upper edge of my taskbar is stuck to top of screen and
taskbar only stretches down almost over half of screen until it stops. I only
want back my basic one line taskbar at the bottom of screen. Thanks in
advance for help!

To move the Taskbar, click and drag it to the bottom of the screen.
Click in the middle where there's no running task button, and don't
click the top or bottom edge; you don't want to resize it, you want to
move it.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi
I have same problem on my XP Home system. Strangely this solution won't work
at all, because upper edge of my taskbar is stuck to top of screen and
taskbar only stretches down almost over half of screen until it stops. I only
want back my basic one line taskbar at the bottom of screen. Thanks in
advance for help!

You are trying to drag it by the edge. It's like a window, and
dragging by the edge resizes it. Click *within* it, then drag.

 

[Guest]

The problem was that there wasn't any handles within taskbar to click and
drag when taskbar was minimized to one line. After resizing it big enough I
could find free place to grab and to drag it to bottom of screen. Thanks to
you and Elmo for your replies.

 

[Elmo]

The problem was that there wasn't any handles within taskbar to click and
drag when taskbar was minimized to one line. After resizing it big enough I
could find free place to grab and to drag it to bottom of screen. Thanks to
you and Elmo for your replies.

Now that you have it where you like it, lock the Taskbar to prevent its
moving again.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

The problem was that there wasn't any handles within taskbar to click and
drag when taskbar was minimized to one line. After resizing it big enough I
could find free place to grab and to drag it to bottom of screen. Thanks to
you and Elmo for your replies.

You're welcome, and glad you got it where you like it. But for the
future, note that clicking on a handle is not what you need to do. You
need to simply click on any unused place inside the task bar.

 

[gccsouthlake]

I am having the exact same problem. Any advice?

 

[Unknown]

Define 'not willing to be dragged back'.

I am having the exact same problem. Any advice?

 

[gccsouthlake]

Thank you, but I solved the problem by going to an earlier restore point;
then I locked the taskbar.