

Locking the taskbar simply prevents that from happening. Lock’er Downįinally, when you have the taskbar where you want it, and the size you want it, be sure to right-click on it and make sure that Lock the taskbar is checked once again.īased on what I hear, it’s fairly common that the taskbar gets unexpectedly resized or moved. While it remains unlocked, just click and hold on any empty area in the taskbar and drag it to whichever side of the screen you’d like. Particularly on wide screens, you might prefer to have it on the left. We normally think of the taskbar being along the bottom of the screen, but it doesn’t have to be. Drag the mouse up, and the taskbar will, once your mouse reaches high enough, jump to double the size. Left-click the mouse and hold the mouse button down. This indicates that this is a resizeable window. Hover your mouse over the top edge of the taskbar, where the mouse pointer turns into a double arrow. To start, make sure your taskbar is unlocked. The border you’ll click on will be invisible.Resizing the taskbar is now pretty much like any other window, except that: Restarting Windows Explorer is one of the quick fixes that help in the easy fixing of the bug. If you want to make a change, make sure it’s unchecked. Sometimes the Windows Explorer freezes, and this results in the bug that causes the taskbar won’t hide the error. If it’s checked, your taskbar is locked and you will not be able to resize or move it. Since it can happen by accident, Windows includes the ability to lock the taskbar. Sometimes people are even surprised when that happens by accident. And as a window, you can resize or even move it. Most folks don’t realize it’s really a special window, of sorts. That “strip”, as you call it, is the Windows taskbar.
