Item's on Windows 7 Taskbar only take around 80% height

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deadman_uk

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Please look at the picture below:

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/2663/win7taskbarn.jpg

It is my taskbar (superbar, whatever it's called now) inside Windows 7. Now look where I've written the words "GAP HERE". When I have windows open and I want to switch, I keep clicking in the gap meaning when I click, nothing happens. This is extremely frustrating so is there anyway to extend the height of the items inside the taskbar so they take up 100%?
 
I assume you've tried a reboot? And have you installed any software recently around the time this started happening?
 
It's doing that because you've put a toolbar on the taskbar with large icons. The size of the icons is forcing the taskbar to increase in thickness.

Remove the toolbar (or change it to "small icons"), problem solved. Why did you go through the trouble of putting the quicklaunch back on the taskbar in the first place? You can pin items directly to the taskbar now.
 
I second the question. Although, it was tempting to do for me too........ but I didn't. I really like the new interface better actually.
 
I wonder if he's noticed he now has two "show desktop" buttons on his taskbar...
 
Vermillion said:
Is the taskbar on the top or bottom of your desktop?
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Unknown-One said:
It's doing that because you've put a toolbar on the taskbar with large icons. The size of the icons is forcing the taskbar to increase in thickness.

Remove the toolbar (or change it to "small icons"), problem solved. Why did you go through the trouble of putting the quicklaunch back on the taskbar in the first place? You can pin items directly to the taskbar now.
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Ah, so that's why. Thanks problem sorted but now the taskbar icons are too small, they just hover at the top of the taskbar with bare space underneath... just looks untidy. If they were centered (so the space at the top and space underneath were equal) this would be fine. I could make the whole taskbar small like it was in XP and Vista but then the date on the clock at the right goes which I really like to keep.

Yes, I am aware I can pin items directly to the taskbar now but this is problematic. Say I pin Firefox to the taskbar and I want to open it, I click the Firefox icon that I just pinned. Now say I want to open a new firefox window, the Firefox icon that I need to open a new window is gone (because it's being used to display the first Firefox window). I could right click and launch a 2nd Firefox window but that's extra buttons to press everytime I need a new Firefox window opened... just hassle and defeats the purpose of the taskbar.

Unknown-One said:
I wonder if he's noticed he now has two "show desktop" buttons on his taskbar...
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Yes, I am aware, I have one at the left and one at the right. I've been used to having the Show Desktop icon at the left since Windows 98 and I don't see why I should change it now. I am happy with it at the left and would remove the one at the right if I knew how.
 
deadman_uk said:
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Yes, I am aware I can pin items directly to the taskbar now but this is problematic. Say I pin Firefox to the taskbar and I want to open it, I click the Firefox icon that I just pinned. Now say I want to open a new firefox window, the Firefox icon that I need to open a new window is gone (because it's being used to display the first Firefox window). I could right click and launch a 2nd Firefox window but that's extra buttons to press everytime I need a new Firefox window opened... just hassle and defeats the purpose of the taskbar.
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Either hold down Shift + Click to open a new window or hit CTL-N for a new window.

i know its hard to break old habits but there are a few new habits that if you get used to it now, will just makeyour life much easier.

personally i use the CTL-N to open new IE/Firefox windows.
 
devil22 said:
You can use the middle mouse button to launch a new browser window, fyi.
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I didn't know that, thanks!

H-street said:
Either hold down Shift + Click to open a new window or hit CTL-N for a new window.

i know its hard to break old habits but there are a few new habits that if you get used to it now, will just makeyour life much easier.

personally i use the CTL-N to open new IE/Firefox windows.
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I think I will use the middle mouse to open a new window from now on. Much better than having to reach over to the keyboard.

Well another reason I really hate using pinned items instead of the taskbar is the position. If I have an item pinned to the left, Firefox in the middle and another icon to the right, then launch Firefox, the pinned icons at the right will move across along the taskbar. I just hate that, but I will try get use to it.
 
deadman_uk said:
Well another reason I really hate using pinned items instead of the taskbar is the position. If I have an item pinned to the left, Firefox in the middle and another icon to the right, then launch Firefox, the pinned icons at the right will move across along the taskbar. I just hate that, but I will try get use to it.
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That's why text labels are off by default :p
 
I'm curious as to why you have Photoshop and its awesome equivalent MSPaint open at the same time...
 
Torquemada XP said:
I'm curious as to why you have Photoshop and its awesome equivalent MSPaint open at the same time...
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From time to time, I paste printscreens into Paint because it loads quicker than Photoshop. I wanted a few items loaded on the taskbar to show you all what I meant and Paint was one of the programs I happen to load :p
 
deadman_uk said:
From time to time, I paste printscreens into Paint because it loads quicker than Photoshop. I wanted a few items loaded on the taskbar to show you all what I meant and Paint was one of the programs I happen to load :p
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No need to do that anymore in WIndows 7, just use the Snipping Tool for screenshots.
 
Torquemada XP said:
No need to do that anymore in WIndows 7, just use the Snipping Tool for screenshots.
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Sometimes I use it for games if I don't have FRAPS open, something the Snipping Tool won't do. Substituting one program for another doesn't change anything though but thanks for the information.
 
Unknown-One said:
Remove the toolbar (or change it to "small icons"), problem solved. Why did you go through the trouble of putting the quicklaunch back on the taskbar in the first place? You can pin items directly to the taskbar now.
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Because some of us don't like having the quick launch icon become the tab? I use both. Original Quicklaunch for things like Instant messager/showdesktop/firefox, but I use the new pin to taskbar for Windows Explorer. Put the quicklaunch on the left of that and it works really well for my workflow.
 
bigdogchris said:
Because some of us don't like having the quick launch icon become the tab? I use both. Original Quicklaunch for things like Instant messager/showdesktop/firefox, but I use the new pin to taskbar for Windows Explorer. Put the quicklaunch on the left of that and it works really well for my workflow.
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Get something like 7Stack or Standalone stack to replace the functionality of Quick Launch and get a lot more functionality and save some space.
 
deadman_uk said:
Yes, I am aware I can pin items directly to the taskbar now but this is problematic. Say I pin Firefox to the taskbar and I want to open it, I click the Firefox icon that I just pinned. Now say I want to open a new firefox window, the Firefox icon that I need to open a new window is gone (because it's being used to display the first Firefox window). I could right click and launch a 2nd Firefox window but that's extra buttons to press everytime I need a new Firefox window opened... just hassle and defeats the purpose of the taskbar.
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Shift Click.
 
Guys, you're all saying things already mentioned above, at least read the thread before commenting lol
 
deadman_uk said:
Guys, you're all saying things already mentioned above, at least read the thread before commenting lol
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It's worth noting that CTRL+N is different from a shift click.

CTRL+N launches a new window in the same process, while a shift click will launch a new process. (At least for firefox; IE8 & Chrome use diff processes for each tab either way)
 
I tried to set a mouseclick on my MX1100 to do the new-window-open but I couldn't get it to work. I've been right click -new window. Middle mouse button wasn't working for me since the logitech software wasn't assigning a middle click but expects a macro for the middle button. Anyone have any great fixes? I'd love a way to set a mouse button so that it was the equivalent of shift-click or middle-click
 
extide said:
It's worth noting that CTRL+N is different from a shift click.

CTRL+N launches a new window in the same process, while a shift click will launch a new process. (At least for firefox; IE8 & Chrome use diff processes for each tab either way)
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For me whatever way I do it, there is only one firefox.exe in the processes box.

GreenMonkey said:
I tried to set a mouseclick on my MX1100 to do the new-window-open but I couldn't get it to work. I've been right click -new window. Middle mouse button wasn't working for me since the logitech software wasn't assigning a middle click but expects a macro for the middle button. Anyone have any great fixes? I'd love a way to set a mouse button so that it was the equivalent of shift-click or middle-click
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I got my middle button site as a generic button inside Setpoint.
 
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