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Move the Taskbar to the Side of the Screen
Rick Broida
Widescreen monitors are great for watching movies and organizing windows side-by-side, but a lot of time the space goes to waste. Consequently, I'm going to suggest a radical idea, one that's particuarly applicable to laptop and netbook users: Move the Windows Taskbar to the side of the screen.
If you've been a Windows user as long as I have, I promise you'll hate this--at first. But think about it: Web pages, Word documents, and the like run top-to-bottom, so the more vertical space you can give them, the better.
By relocating the Taskbar to the left side of the screen (or the right, if you prefer), you're freeing up vertical space for stuff you use every day while making smarter use of wasted horizontal space.
Ready to give it a try? The steps are the same in both Windows Vista and Windows 7:
1. Right-click an empty area of the Taskbar and clear the checkmark next to Lock the Taskbar.
Rick Broida
Widescreen monitors are great for watching movies and organizing windows side-by-side, but a lot of time the space goes to waste. Consequently, I'm going to suggest a radical idea, one that's particuarly applicable to laptop and netbook users: Move the Windows Taskbar to the side of the screen.
If you've been a Windows user as long as I have, I promise you'll hate this--at first. But think about it: Web pages, Word documents, and the like run top-to-bottom, so the more vertical space you can give them, the better.
By relocating the Taskbar to the left side of the screen (or the right, if you prefer), you're freeing up vertical space for stuff you use every day while making smarter use of wasted horizontal space.
Ready to give it a try? The steps are the same in both Windows Vista and Windows 7:
1. Right-click an empty area of the Taskbar and clear the checkmark next to Lock the Taskbar.
further instructions & screenshot - pcworld - http://www.pcworld.c...the_screen.html
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