Taskbar resizes on reboot from 4 to 3 small quicklaunch icons wide

[Whit]

I am using Windows XP Pro SP2 on a laptop with a WSXGA screen. The most
convenient taskbar location for me is on the right side of the screen, so...
if I
1) unlock the taskbar
2) set the quicklaunch toolbar view to small icons
3) move the taskbar to the right side of the screen
4) adjust the taskbar width to be 4 quicklaunch icons wide (so that "start"
is visible on the Start button)
5) lock the taskbar

All seems to work as expected through suspends and hibernates. However, if
I shut down windows completely and restart, my taskbar resizes automatically
to 3 quicklaunch icons wide (even though it was and remains locked).

I have tried created a NoSaveSettings registry entry of 0, but that had no
effect on this behavior.

I have tried rebooting, unlocking the taskbar, setting it to 4 wide, then
rebooting without locking it again, but it still comes up 3 wide.

I also tried setting the taskbar width to 5 quicklaunch icons as suggested
in another post. This worked - upon reboot, the taskbar remained 5
quicklaunch icons wide! However this is wider than I would like my taskbar
to be...

Has anyone come across a solution to this problem?

Thank you!

 

[Whit]

One more behavior to add to my troubles...

The taskbar resizes on either reboot or logoff/logon.

Furthermore, it does so once each time I log on, gradually getting narrower
and narrower until it is only one (small) quicklaunch icon wide - not nearly
wide enough for the Start button to show the word start.

However if, as I mentioned in my last posting, I set the taskbar to be 5
small quicklaunch icons wide, this unwanted resizing does not occur at
reboot or logon.

Aaaaaargh!

 

[Whit]

PROBLEM SOLVED!

When I turned off all Toolbars, including the language toolbar, I noticed
that I could resize my Taskbar continuously, not just in icon-sized chunks.
After logoff and re-logon, the Taskbar stayed its original size. However,
after another logoff and logon, it shrunk again - but the language toolbar
had reappeared automatically even though I had turned it off.

So, I deleted support for a second language, causing the language toolbar to
disappear permanently, and that solved my Taskbar resizing problem. I have
turned on the Quicklaunch toolbar again, and all is back to normal.

I had not noticed the language toolbar, because it was at the bottom of my
taskbar... but it seems to have been the culprit.