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the taskbarThe taskbar is the gray bar usually at the bottom of your screen, the one with the "Start" button on the left and the time on the right. Sometimes it seems to do strange things.
the movable task barThe most frequently asked question we receive, mainly from new computer users, but often even from intermediate level folks, is that it's moved. The task bar is now on the left, right, or top of the screen, and the caller has no idea how it got there. Well, we know how it got there, and you will too once you know this simple trick. The task bar is movable. Simply click on a blank area of the task bar with your left mouse button, hold the button down, and "drag" the task bar back to the bottom of the screen, releasing the mouse button. Go ahead a try it. It's easy.
the disappearing task barAutohide- this is a feature of Windows, which gives you
the option of hiding your task bar so you have more viewable area on your screen. To
turn it on or off, right click on a blank area of your task bar, click on
"properties", and check or uncheck "autohide". When enabled,
your task bar minimizes itself and disappears. To make it appear, just move your
mouse to where your taskbar normally is. It's not hidden, it's gone!- I consider this to be a bug in Windows. You have the ability to size your task bar by slowly moving your mouse pointer over the inside edge (if your task bar is on the bottom of your screen, the top edge) of the task bar until the mouse pointer changes into an up-and-down arrow (or left-and-right, if your task bar is on the side of your screen). Left click and hold down your mouse button, and move the cursor toward the inside of the screen a little, and release the button. See how big the task bar is now? To make it smaller, just reverse the process. The "bug" is that you can shrink the task bar down to nothing. That is, you can make it so small that it disappears, and I see no use in that, do you? To restore it to it's proper size, just move your mouse cursor to each side of your screen until you see the up-and-down (or left-and-right) arrows, hold down the left mouse button, and drag it back to it's original size.
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