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Offline bestofour

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This should be an easy thing to fix
« on: Feb 22, 2010, 09:14:13 PM »
because it's happened before but I can't get it to work this time. 

The bar at the bottom of my screen, you know, that has the start button and the time, is wider than it should be.  I don't know how I did it but somehow it's become wider.  Now when I minimize a window I can't see to restore it.  I have tried to find a spot to make it smaller but can't find it.  This has happened before and I've been able to find a spot that allows me to pull it down.  Not this time.

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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #1 on: Feb 22, 2010, 10:05:48 PM »
I don't know. That is not a problem i have had before. i can mess with my toolbars at the top of my pages by clicking on view. The only thing I can find about the task bar on the bottom of mine is a lock or unlock option and I can't tell what that does
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #2 on: Feb 22, 2010, 11:23:22 PM »
Can you place your curser at the top edge so that it turns to a double arrow? If you can do that, the left click and drag you should be able to pull it back down. If you don't get the double arrow, try right clicking and "unlock" the tool bar then try it again.
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #3 on: Feb 23, 2010, 10:36:04 AM »
I've gone all across the toolbar a lot of times and I never get the double error.  I'll try the right clicking when I get home and see if that will work.

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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #4 on: Feb 23, 2010, 07:21:57 PM »
Right click the taskbar and then click on Properties and that is where you can set some parameters that should keep you out of trouble.   :BigGrin:
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #5 on: Feb 23, 2010, 08:51:14 PM »
tried it but I still can't small down the bottom toolbar.  I get the double arrow and it will go all the way across the tool bar but it won't small down.  This is a new problem.  Wonder what has happened.

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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #6 on: Feb 24, 2010, 06:53:11 PM »
OK, can you take a screenshot of what you are talking about so we can see?  The reason I ask for a screenshot is that you said the taskbar is wider but when you minimize you can't see it.  That's the opposite of what I would think, so I guess I don't understand what the issue is.
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #7 on: Feb 24, 2010, 08:15:02 PM »
I can see the task bar all the time.  I meant if I minimize the window that I have this forum up in - then I can't see the this window to restore it because it's hidden behind the wide task bar.

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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #8 on: Feb 24, 2010, 09:17:48 PM »
sheri, right click the task bar and "unlock" it by clicking on the lock task bar.  then, righ click again and click on properties.  then, make sure that the block for "always on top" is not clicked.  then move your mouse like someone else said until you get that double arrow.  bring it back down.  that should "fix" this for you.
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #9 on: Feb 24, 2010, 09:22:11 PM »
Ah, I thought always on top meant I would be moving it to the top of the screen. But it means on top of the other stuff down there? Cool. i am always learning.
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #10 on: Feb 24, 2010, 09:32:46 PM »
that's what it means.  but, if it is always on top, when you minimize a page, it should show it as an icon in the task bar.
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #11 on: Feb 25, 2010, 07:18:41 PM »
I don't know why mine won't fix.  I have the option of really big or sort of big or not on the screen at all.  I keep saying it hasn't always been this way.  Until lately I've been able to see the bar with the clock and what programs are running and still be able to minimize a window and then see the very top of it to restore it. 

Jenn, if I do what you suggested the taskbar goes away completely and I can't see the clock or anything else.

Oh well.  Thanks for trying everyone.

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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #12 on: Feb 25, 2010, 07:22:07 PM »
Sheri, press F11 and see if your problem goes away... :grinnnn:
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #13 on: Feb 25, 2010, 08:11:14 PM »
I had to press F11 to see what it would do. :giggle:  Maybe that is the problem.

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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #14 on: Feb 25, 2010, 10:05:43 PM »
Wow, learn something new every day! I had to try it too. he he
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #15 on: Feb 25, 2010, 10:19:26 PM »
So what does it do? I'm afraid.....
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #16 on: Feb 25, 2010, 10:28:59 PM »
just do it. You can press F11 again to undo it. :-)
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #17 on: Feb 25, 2010, 10:40:01 PM »
So what does it do? I'm afraid.....

Gives you a front row seat to what you are viewing, Tina. :giggle: Just makes it a full-screen... :grinnnn:
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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #18 on: Mar 03, 2010, 07:34:55 PM »
No idea what happened but it's fixed.

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Re: This should be an easy thing to fix
« Reply #19 on: Mar 03, 2010, 09:04:44 PM »
:ThumbUp: i'm glad.
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