Re: Taskbar location

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Mr. Blake: Yes the white space survives rebooting. Dummy

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

Galen wrote:
In news:OgfqdX57GHA.3604@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Malke had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

dummy wrote:

Sorry Galen, but it didn't work.

"Galen" wrote:

In news:E2F5A063-FAA1-45D6-AC26-586F12BFDA05@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
dummy had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

My taskbar is on the top of my screen and won't move. Can't drag
right click,etc.
In its place at the bottom of the screen is a white i/2 inch
space. If I try to move the white, I freeze. Any suggestions?

Right click on the taskbar and select unlock and then try to move
it back into place. When you've got it dragged back into place
right click the task bar again and lock it again.

Possibly you've locked your Desktop. Go to the Display applet in
Control Panel and look on the Desktop tab. Click on Customize
Desktop, and then click on the Web tab. You will see that there are
checkmarks next to "My Current Home Page" and probably "Lock Desktop
Items". Uncheck these, Apply/OK out. Then try to move the Taskbar per
Galen's good advice.

Malke

And if what Malke wrote doesn't do the last of it then... Hmm...
(This is more a question to Malke.) What are the off-chances of it
being a dorked malware install that sent the taskbar to the top and
then tried to load something as the desktop - thus the white space at
the bottom? That's the part that made me a bit curious as to the
"normal" fix working or not. There isn't normally a white space at
the bottom or at least there hasn't been any time I've had the kids
over... I realize it is a long shot but... Hmm... The white space at
the bottom throws me off.


The white space on the bottom *is* odd, and is why I didn't contribute to
this thread earlier. But I wonder if the white space at the bottom is just
an anomaly of the video driver. I'd like to ask "dummy" if that white space
survives rebooting, or disappears after rebooting.

I'm going to guess that it goes away when you reboot, and I'd like to
suggest the following: follow Galen's original advice, but don't drag the
task bar directly to the bottom of the screen. Drag it to one side first,
and then to the bottom.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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