Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

[Andy]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Andy

 

[Ophelia]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

Along the bottom where I always had it. I have it auto-hidden too, so that
it only pops up when I pull my curser down. I also use 'small icons' so that
it isn't too crowded!

 

[Bob Hatch]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Andy

Bottom.

I've tried top and both sides, couldn't get used to it being anyplace
but bottom.

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[Andy]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Andy

Left side

1: You can fit more open programs.
2: Conforms to most website layouts.
3: Integrates visually better with maxamised windows title frame.
4: Displays time, date AND day (i.e. Wednesday).
5: Allows more scroll height in programs/browsers.
6: Shows off transparency effect much better than skinny bottom bar.

Andy

 

[Jeff Layman]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Andy

Top. Has been since NT4.

I have never understood the taskbar defaulting to the bottom. If you are
exchanging data between programmes, you have to keep going from top to
bottom and back again. All progs have their menus, toolbars, buttons,
whatever at the top. Why should the computer itself be any different? Only
downside is lazy programming where a window or pop-up starts at 0,0 thus
being partially hidden beneath the taskbar. Not difficult to get round, but
as MS give the option of the taskbar being at the top, programmers should
take that into consideration.

 

[TetraDragão]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Andy

Left.

My laptop's is wide screen, so why wasting valuable visible area on
top/bottom when there's plenty room sideways not taken by the applications?

 

[Dave-UK]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Andy

It was on the bottom till I read this thread, now it's on the left.

 

[Ophelia]

6: Shows off transparency effect much better than skinny bottom bar.

Ah the transparency effect is what I was trying to explain to Bert! Please
can you tell him how we got it?

 

[Ophelia]

It was on the bottom till I read this thread, now it's on the left.

Interesting. I might give it a try.

 

[DanS]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Taskbar ? I don't have one of those. I use a custom shell I wrote for
Windows that uses a popup display that shows with a middle mouse click.
This window shows at the mouse cursor position, so I never have to move
very much at all to switch between programs this way.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Andy

Top and double height.. had it that way for as long as Windows has allowed
it.. only trouble is that some program windows seem determined to open under
it regardless of any attempts to curb the behaviour..

 

[Allen]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Andy

At the bottom for me, as that's where it's always been for me. I might
try out left side because of some of the responses. The main thing I
want is for it to always, always, always be in the same place ever time
I look at it. In Vista quite often some unidentified condition or
something I did accidentally would move it around and it took several
tries to get it back to the bottom.
Allen

 

[Guest]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Bottom, or B.

 

[Lord Vetinari]

Top. Has been since NT4.

I have never understood the taskbar defaulting to the bottom. If you are
exchanging data between programmes, you have to keep going from top to
bottom and back again. All progs have their menus, toolbars, buttons,
whatever at the top. Why should the computer itself be any different?
Only downside is lazy programming where a window or pop-up starts at 0,0
thus being partially hidden beneath the taskbar. Not difficult to get
round, but as MS give the option of the taskbar being at the top,
programmers should take that into consideration.

Until this subject came up, I hadn't bothered to move it. Now, I'm putting
it on the left, because I prefer to keep it hidden, and I keep accidentally
bringing it back up. Heh.

 

[Andy]

Top. Has been since NT4.

I have never understood the taskbar defaulting to the bottom. If you
are exchanging data between programmes, you have to keep going from
top to bottom and back again. All progs have their menus, toolbars,
buttons, whatever at the top. Why should the computer itself be any
different? Only downside is lazy programming where a window or pop-up
starts at 0,0 thus being partially hidden beneath the taskbar. Not
difficult to get round, but as MS give the option of the taskbar being
at the top, programmers should take that into consideration.

Way back in time, to the birth of the Windows OS, Apple challenged the
"look and feel" of the Windows OS. Court agreed. That's why the taskbar
sank to the bottom, to please the court.

Andy

 

[Matt Ellis]

Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?

Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?

I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.

You?

Andy

Bottom, Auto-hide, Large Icons. Also drag it tall - I have 37
programs on it in two rows plus a double height space above them for
the open programs (can't think of what these bars are called)

 

[Andy]

A few observations of the top taskbar...

1. After years of the bottom located taskbar, my brain still wants to
look downward for it. Two days and I still haven't adjusted.

2. The way the start menu "drops" I don't have to climb up, rather start
from the top and make my way down. Also, things like the Firefox download
notification pop-up also pops up at the top rather than at the bottom.
Both new visual behaviors to contend with.

3. Some apps don't observe the top taskbar and their app menus can become
obscured, causing me to shift the tastbar to the left or right to regain
mouse control of the app menubars. Someone else here mentioned this minor
PITA. I'm in complete agreement.

Imho,

Andy

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Left side

1: You can fit more open programs.
2: Conforms to most website layouts.
3: Integrates visually better with maxamised windows title frame.
4: Displays time, date AND day (i.e. Wednesday).
5: Allows more scroll height in programs/browsers.
6: Shows off transparency effect much better than skinny bottom bar.

Just a clarification. The "skinny bottom bar" can be made fatter so that it
accommodates more programs and displays all time/date information. To
make it fatter, unlock the taskbar and position the mouse pointer over the
top edge such that a two way arrow appears. Hold the left button down
and pull the top edge up as far as you desire.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

A few observations of the top taskbar...

1. After years of the bottom located taskbar, my brain still wants to
look downward for it. Two days and I still haven't adjusted.

2. The way the start menu "drops" I don't have to climb up, rather start
from the top and make my way down. Also, things like the Firefox download
notification pop-up also pops up at the top rather than at the bottom.
Both new visual behaviors to contend with.

3. Some apps don't observe the top taskbar and their app menus can become
obscured, causing me to shift the tastbar to the left or right to regain
mouse control of the app menubars. Someone else here mentioned this minor
PITA. I'm in complete agreement.

Imho,

Andy

If you think about it, all applications have their task bars at the top. The
Windows classic menu is much faster to use if it drops DOWN.

 

[Char Jackson]

If you think about it, all applications have their task bars at the top. The
Windows classic menu is much faster to use if it drops DOWN.

Please explain why you feel it's faster if it drops down. Obviously,
it's not actually faster, so are you saying it's sort of an optical
illusion? I don't understand.