Easiest quick question in the world

Reef · #1 07-13-2005, 02:06 AM

My desktop has the task bar vertically like this . It is pissing me off, I want it horizontal on the bottom. How do I do that?

gusser · #2 07-13-2005, 02:13 AM

If I had 4k posts i'd be berating you for not searching because someone asked this less then a month ago.[img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] In all seriousness just click on the big unused blue section and drag it back down to the bottom. If it won't drag right click on it and make sure it is not "locked".

gus

bort411 · #3 07-13-2005, 02:14 AM

Right click on the taskbar and make sure that "Lock the Taskbar" is unlocked. Then, left click on the taskbar, hold it down, and drag your mouse to the bottom.

Reef · #4 07-13-2005, 02:23 AM

see, that's the thing. I try to left click and drag it down. It doesn't go down. Taskbar is unlocked

gusser · #5 07-13-2005, 02:33 AM

That's strange. With a little googling i found the registry entry that controls the taskbar. It's under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\
Advanced] 0=locked 1= unlocked. If this is giberish i can walk you through it if need be.

gus

Reef · #6 07-13-2005, 02:38 AM

ok, I'll go into the registry and see if that does anything. thx

gusser · #7 07-13-2005, 02:41 AM

I forgot to add the key your looking for is TaskbarSizeMove...hope you didn't bork your computer.

gus

Reef · #8 07-13-2005, 02:47 AM

is anything a 1 that should be a 0 ?

gusser · #9 07-13-2005, 03:00 AM

Taskbarsizemove is set to 1 which means it's unlocked and movebale. My registry has TaskbarGlomming set to 1 which has something to do with the quick launch i belive. I'd go ahead and try setting that to 1 and restarting and see if it again becomes moveable. If that doesn't work out for you i'm out of ideas.

gus

Reef · #10 07-13-2005, 03:10 AM

ok thx. will update later

edit: it seemed to work. thanks a lot