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   Message 145,523 of 146,966   
   Ken Blake, MVP to All   
   Re: My XP taskbar was hidden   
   23 Feb 11 08:54:34   
   
   XPost: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support   
   From: kblake@kb.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:49:33 -0500, "dadiOH"    
   wrote:   
      
      
   > To each their own but I have never understood why people want their taskbar   
   > to always be visible (and "on top") thereby depriving them of screen real   
   > estate.  If it is set to "on top" and "hidden" it will pop up whenever you   
   > move the cursor to the bottom; to do anything with it you have to move the   
   > cursor to it anyway.   
   >   
   > Even better IMO is to move the whole taskbar to the left side, make it a   
   > 1-3" wide, hidden and always on top.  Now you have tons of room for   
   > minimized apps and enough space to show more than a couple of letters of   
   > each.  You can even make your own toolbars, catagorize them and dump QL.   
   > More info in my dandies, see sig.   
      
      
   I'm with you entirely. As I often say in the newsgroups and forums,   
   "with today's wide-screen monitors, I prefer the task bar on the left   
   or right side of the screen. I think that makes a better use of screen   
   real estate than having it at the bottom."   
      
   --   
   Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003   
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