Microsoft removed the address bar in Windows XP Service Pack 3. The address bar was a toolbar of the Windows Taskbar that worked as a quick launcher for websites and files. There are actually a few possibilities to bring back the address bar in Windows XP Service Pack 3. The first one is the easiest [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Remove The Windows Start Button
Users who like total desktop conversions might seek methods of removing standard Windows elements like the Windows Start Button to maximize screen estate. Not everyone would want to give up on the Windows Start Menu but someone who is working with an application launcher like Launchy would probably not miss it at all. But even [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Multi-Monitor Taskbar
If you ever saw a dual-monitor or even multi-monitor setup under Windows you might have noticed that the Windows Taskbar is not expanding to the other connected monitors but stays locked on the main computer monitor. That taskbar will display all open folders and applications of all three computer monitors regardless on which monitor they [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Quick Launch Icon Size
My new computer monitor arrived yesterday. It is an hp computer monitor with 24″ for maximum screen space. Pretty much feels like working with two 19″ monitors only that you got everything on one screen now. One thing that I noticed after connecting the new computer monitor to my computer system was that the quick [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Restore Windows Taskbar Auto-hide
I have been experiencing a problem with the auto-hide feature of the Windows Taskbar for the last two weeks or so. Auto-hide would work fine for some time but eventually the Windows Taskbar would just lock up and not auto-hide anymore. This was sometimes caused by applications that have been started but the rest of [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Change Order Of Windows Taskbar Items
To be honest I never quite understood why someone would want to change the order of the items that are displayed in the Windows Taskbar but I guess demand is there for a tool like Taskix which I discovered at Lifehacker today. Taskix is one of those lightweight applications that do not use lots of [...]