Taskbar won't return to usual size and place

mealmond

I had the issue after installing windows 10, I have the usual icons on the taskbar and two short cuts, one to libraries and one to dropbox. I tried everything to get the size right, nothing would work, then I decided, maybe there were to many items on the task bar, I took off the libraries short cut and the taskbar when to the the correct size.

I then added the short-cut to libraries back onto the taskbar but this time it stayed at the correct size.

Worked for me, see if you can remove something and see if that changes the size.

Martin

ampersand

Thankyou Martin - the 7 things sitting there, still in 3 lines are -
updates are ready for your computer[but they never work - usually silverlight which has never installed, don't know what is]
MyDrive Connect
Local Area Connection
Skype
Volume
Safely Remove This Hardwawe
Quicktime[whatever that is]
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Which to remove safely?
I would have thought windows10 is 10 steps too far for my windows xp.

bsod

post screenshot or screen recording of the settings

where's the taskbar separator

ampersand

Hello bsod - thankyou, too.

If separator means the change from royal blue to lighter blue containing those 7 icons, I tried to stretch that, hoping the 7 would all pop back into a single line. I can't move it.
Which settings do you want me to show?

20aday

ampersand wrote: »

Thankyou all - hadn't expected so many responses, or fact that prob.'s still ongoing, albeit at foot of page.

I just can't reduce the 7 small icons: date/time/progs etc. from 3 lines back to 1, which will restore former status quo.

Everything's been normal size throughout.
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20aday - I see that, exactly, but what should I do with it? Checked Advance - nothing to change that I can see.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

In Display Properties what's your Screen Resolution listed as?

bsod

full screenshot, and taskbar properties (right click, properties)

can the bar now be dragged up, to 4 5 6 lines depth, and move around to left, top, right

ampersand

1024 x 768 pixels in screen resolution part of that box.
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Nothing working now, although it has done - posts passim.
Have never been able to take screenshots.

This is a notspot, where all comms[ inc.LL, mob] work only in fits and starts and worsening, with sporadic periods of wind-up noises during which everything freezes or stops entirely while the roar continues. Posts may then disappear, thanks often do. This is just another of several techie help Threads I've submitted over the years.

It's good of you to return - I'm trying to finish something outside and rain's beginning.