#Windows 10 taskbar too thick windows#

Was looking to see if there were any other people like me who keeps their taskbar set to the left of screen? No need to take up extra space for title. Which is enough of a cue to what the window is about. Also less interference with accidental clicking the scrollbar or close button in windows.ДЇinally I find that I can shrink the width of the vertical taskbar to about the width of the start button, itвЂ™ll show the icon and 1st letter of the window title.

#Windows 10 taskbar too thick windows#

I prefer left because most windows have menus that have most accessed options on the upper left anyway, so less dragging the cursor all the way across a monitor if the taskbar was on the right and most accessed menu & toolbars are in the upper left. Having it always visible means I donвЂ™t need the extra motion to bring cursor to edge first to see where I need to click next, saves a few milli-seconds, which adds up over a day of task switching.ДЄs for left or right side. What IвЂ™ve discovered is that the auto-hide and combine feature requires extra clicks & mental processing when switching task windows. IвЂ™ve tried various sides of the screen for a few years with & without auto-hide. Other than the above reasons, I canвЂ™t really explain why it works out so much better for me. IвЂ™ve been a right-hand side taskbar guy since 2006 when I saw a co-worker doing it on his computer and IвЂ™ve never gone back. Also, your running task buttons are all of a uniform height and width, instead of scaling based on how many are open. This means that you can see more icons in your system tray and your quick launch bar. But because of the ample space on the side, you can bump it up to two or three columns. When your taskbar is along the bottom, it usually takes up just one line. All of this adds up to extra space on the left and right for your taskbar. If you are on a regular desktop, your resolution will probably be plenty big. Likewise, web designs usually err on the side of lower x-axis resolutions to allow smaller screens to see the whole page without scrolling horizontally. In Print Layout, it conjures up an 8Г—11 sheet of paper, leaving a sizeable amount of empty space on either side of the workspace. In spite of the hardware switch from 4:3 to 16:9, most everyday applications favor tall and skinny views. Most Applications DonвЂ™t Take Up All The Horizontal Space So, sticking the taskbar on the left or right is a more efficient use of space, since you wonвЂ™t be squishing things vertically. Especially when you consider that we scroll up and down web pages, not left and right.

What that means is that you have more screen real estate fat-wise than you do tall-wise.

TodayвЂ™s monitors are 16:9 widescreen, even on dinky netbooks like my EEEPC. But anyone born in the new millennium might not. Do you remember when standard monitors had aspect ratios of 4:3? Pepperidge Farm remembers.