{"id":14,"date":"2007-04-19T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2007-04-19T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T20:17:40","slug":"windows-xp-taskbar-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP Taskbar Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are several settings for the taskbar that you can adjust right from windows.\u00c2\u00a0 The task bar is the bar where you access your start menu.\u00c2\u00a0 There are two areas of the Taskbar settings.\u00c2\u00a0 Taskbar appearance and Notification Area.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Taskbar appearance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0If you right click your mouse on the task bar and select &#8216;Properties&#8217; the TaskBar and Start Menu (The start menu properties\u00c2\u00a0will be discussed at a later date) Properties window will appear and you will see the following options where you can place a check mark in.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lock the taskbar\n<ul>\n<li>Checking this box\u00c2\u00a0prevents you from accidentally moving the task bar from where you want it.\u00c2\u00a0 If you would like to move the task bar later on, just uncheck this box.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Auto-hide the taskbar\n<ul>\n<li>Checking this box\u00c2\u00a0will automatically\u00c2\u00a0cause the taskbar to move off the screen giving you more screen area for your application(s).\u00c2\u00a0 Do see the task bar again, simply move the mouse to the far edge where the taskbar is located.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Keep the taskbar on top of other windows\n<ul>\n<li>Checking this box will allow you to always see the taskbar while using other applications.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise you would treat the taskbar just like another application by clicking on it to use it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Group similar taskbar buttons\n<ul>\n<li>If you have several internet explorer windows or several word documents opened, checking this box will group all similar instances of the application into one taskbar item.\u00c2\u00a0 You can select which one you want to work with simply by clicking on the taskbar item and selecting one from the list.\u00c2\u00a0 Without this feature, some of our taskbars would be unreadable and unmanageable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Show Quick Launch\n<ul>\n<li>This simply shows the quick launch area next to the Start Menu.\u00c2\u00a0 This area is used for your most frequently used applications, or what ever you place in there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notification Area<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Show the clock\n<ul>\n<li>This is self explanatory.\u00c2\u00a0 It either shows the clock in your taskbar if checked or if unchecked, doesn&#8217;t show the clock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hide inactive icons\n<ul>\n<li>Checking this box will hide any non-frequently used system tray or notification area icons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several settings for the taskbar that you can adjust right from windows.\u00c2\u00a0 The task bar is the bar where you access your start menu.\u00c2\u00a0 There are two areas of the Taskbar settings.\u00c2\u00a0 Taskbar appearance and Notification Area. \u00c2\u00a0Taskbar appearance \u00c2\u00a0If you right click your mouse on the task bar and select &#8216;Properties&#8217; the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miketartaglia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}