How to Alter the Size of Your Windows Desktop Taskbar
To alter the size of your Windows desktop taskbar, make sure that the taskbar is not locked., Once the taskbar is unlocked, position your mouse cursor directly over any vacant space on the taskbar, or on the top section that must be just appeared...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: To alter the size of your Windows desktop taskbar
To see whether or not it is locked, right click any empty space on the taskbar, and check there is no tick next to 'Lock the taskbar'.
If there isn't, good.
If there is, click 'Lock the taskbar' once to unlock it. -
Step 2: make sure that the taskbar is not locked.
The pointer will turn into a two-headed arrow for the latter.
At this point, click and drag the taskbar's edge up, to make it bigger.
Alternatively, drag the taskbar's edge down to make is smaller. , To do so, hover the cursor over an empty space in the taskbar, before clicking and dragging the whole thing to the side of the screen you want to put it. , To do so, right click an empty space on the taskbar and click 'Lock the taskbar'. , If this is an annoyance to you, and you want the taskbar to stay in the view permanently, right click on empty space in the taskbar and click 'Properties'.
In the dialog box, click the small box next to 'Auto-hide the taskbar' to uncheck it.
Once this box is unchecked, click the 'OK' button at the bottom of the dialog box and your preferred settings will be saved. , To activate, or in some situations de-activate, these features, merely uncheck or check the relevant boxes located on the taskbar Properties dialog box. , To do so, open the taskbar
-->Properties
--->Dialog Box and click the 'Customize button' near the bottom of the dialog box.
There are other optional features which you can activate, and in some situations deactivate, relating the notification area, such as hiding or showing the clock and hiding inactive mini-icons. , If not, you can always change the settings back to what they were before, or try another combination of preferences. -
Step 3: Once the taskbar is unlocked
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Step 4: position your mouse cursor directly over any vacant space on the taskbar
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Step 5: or on the top section that must be just appeared.
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Step 6: While the taskbar is unlocked
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Step 7: you can reposition the taskbar at the top
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Step 8: right or left edges of the screen.
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Step 9: At this stage
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Step 10: you may lock the taskbar again if you wish.
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Step 11: Your computer may sometimes automatically hide the taskbar from view.
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Step 12: Other settings that you can change using the taskbar Properties dialog box include grouping similar documents
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Step 13: keeping the taskbar on top of open windows and of course showing/hiding the QuickLaunch toolbar.
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Step 14: You can even customize the mini-icons which are shown in the notification area (the section of the taskbar at the right-hand end).
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Step 15: Now that you have finished
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Step 16: start using your computer to see whether or not what you have done to your taskbar suits you.
Detailed Guide
To see whether or not it is locked, right click any empty space on the taskbar, and check there is no tick next to 'Lock the taskbar'.
If there isn't, good.
If there is, click 'Lock the taskbar' once to unlock it.
The pointer will turn into a two-headed arrow for the latter.
At this point, click and drag the taskbar's edge up, to make it bigger.
Alternatively, drag the taskbar's edge down to make is smaller. , To do so, hover the cursor over an empty space in the taskbar, before clicking and dragging the whole thing to the side of the screen you want to put it. , To do so, right click an empty space on the taskbar and click 'Lock the taskbar'. , If this is an annoyance to you, and you want the taskbar to stay in the view permanently, right click on empty space in the taskbar and click 'Properties'.
In the dialog box, click the small box next to 'Auto-hide the taskbar' to uncheck it.
Once this box is unchecked, click the 'OK' button at the bottom of the dialog box and your preferred settings will be saved. , To activate, or in some situations de-activate, these features, merely uncheck or check the relevant boxes located on the taskbar Properties dialog box. , To do so, open the taskbar
-->Properties
--->Dialog Box and click the 'Customize button' near the bottom of the dialog box.
There are other optional features which you can activate, and in some situations deactivate, relating the notification area, such as hiding or showing the clock and hiding inactive mini-icons. , If not, you can always change the settings back to what they were before, or try another combination of preferences.
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