Windows 7 Taskbar
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Turning your monitor through 90 degrees isn't an option?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
Turning your monitor through 90 degrees isn't an option?
In two cases, no, they're laptops, and I don't fancy typing sideways. In the third case, I have a nice big 27" IPS monitor[^] from work, which has great resolution, but no swivel. I have a pretty deep desk, but I think I'd be having to look up and down a bit too much if I was facing a 2 foot high screen. (I have had a monitor in the past which was portrait, and it was pretty nifty, but very odd!) Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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I have mine set to Auto-Hide. Windows just popped up the INCREDIBLY ANNOYING tooltip "Updates are ready..." crap. Now my taskbar is stuck open. I'v seen this before and havent ever figured out how to get it to hide again, short of logging off/on again. Anyone know how to correct this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
In order to control the "mutant task bar with a mind of its own" which decides arbitrarily when it is visible or not, I use a free utility, "TaskBar Eliminator"[^]. I'm using it on Win 7/64, but supposedly it works on Vista, and XP, also. It uses alt-t to show, or hide, the TaskBar: yes a slight pain in the butt to remember at first, but then you become used to it, and it's almost automatic now, for me to use it. It, of course, appears in the TaskBar itself, and has a strange implementation where you don't get the context menu you might expect with a standard TaskBar icon: you context click, and then get a single choice: "Preferences:" you then click on that, and the control dialogue opens, and that gives you the only way you can exit the program (unless you want to use the Task Manager to kill it). And, you have no option to change the key-combination that triggers it. But, it works ... while running every app I use, etc. ! best, Bill
"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real." Niels Bohr
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I assume that the executive order starts with zero.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
It comes from a zero...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Mitt is that you? Not too many others would blame Obama for a windows task bar issue. Then again maybe somehow one can claim that the task bar uses the entire system resources with out actually doing any work. DAMN SOCIALIST TASK BAR!
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
Collin Jasnoch wrote:
Then again maybe somehow one can claim that the task bar uses the entire system resources with out actually doing any work.
ROFLMFAO That's funny - I don't care *who* you are...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
