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The taskbar has great functionality in Windows 7. It has some very interesting features and enhancements that make it work better than other versions. Therefore, it is relevant to write a series of articles on this kind of topic. , unconditional should not be ignored. Now let's look at how to customize the appearance, size, location of the main tools.

How to open the taskbar properties window

To open these settings, you need to right-click on any empty spot on the taskbar and select the "properties" command.

The parameters we need are located in the first tab, which is called the "taskbar". In the following articles, we will consider all the tabs in more detail.

How to change the appearance and position of the taskbar

The presets in the window that opens will help you change the appearance and location. Thus, you can make the following changes:

- Pin taskbar - if this option is selected, the start menu bar will remain stationary. You cannot move to another location or resize.

- Automatically hide the taskbar - this option allows you to hide the taskbar when you are not using it. Then, when you hover over the area of \u200b\u200bits location, it smoothly pops up.

- Use small icons - When checked, the pinned icons appear smaller, which helps to save desktop space.

- - parameters to determine the location. To do this, click on the drop-down menu, as shown in the image. Choose the position you like best.

There is another way to move. Left-click on an empty spot on the start bar, while holding down the button, move the cursor to the desired side of the monitor. After moving the cursor, release the button and the panel moves in the direction we need. If you can't drag and drop, make sure the "pin taskbar" option is disabled, uncheck the box and try again.

Actually customizing the windows 7 panel is not difficult to learn... With the right approach, you can easily learn to manipulate her.

- Taskbar buttons - helps to define the appearance of labels of open applications. There are three options here:

• Always group, hide labels - tags of one application will be combined and their names will be hidden. This is the default.
• Group when filling the taskbar - combines labels into one, if several tabs of the same application are open. This setting also shows the names of open elements.
• Do not group - will display all labels separately and will never combine labels of the same app as one. If you have 15 google chrome browser windows open, they will be shown separately. If the shortcuts take up the entire length of the taskbar, then in the right corner you will see an arrow, when you click on it, a new workspace will open, with labels that have not fit. When the taskbar is full, label names are not shown.

Customizing the windows 7 taskbar allows you to change its height. To resize, move the mouse cursor to the edge until the cursor appears with two arrows (up and down). Hold down the mouse button and set the height as needed.

Note: you can change the size if the "dock the taskbar" option is not enabled.

Aero Peek Desktop View

When this option is enabled, you can move the cursor to the desktop preview button, after which all open windows will become semi-transparent. This is useful when you want to view a gadget or other information on your desktop without minimizing open windows. Move the cursor off the button and everything will return to its place.

If the feature is not useful to you, uncheck "Use Aero Peek for Desktop Preview" and it will be disabled.

If you click on the desktop preview button, all open windows are minimized. Click again and all windows will be shown in their original state.

how to add toolbars

A feature that is not new, but allows adding additional tools... To add standard or custom tools, right-click an empty space on the taskbar. In the menu that opens, go to the "panel" item and select the option you want:

- The address - will add an address bar into which the url of sites is entered. When you enter the address, the link will be opened by the default browser. This string can be used to access a folder or file, but it is not very convenient. It's easier to enter the items you're looking for in the Start Menu search.

FROM links - this adds urls to your favorite sites in Internet Explorer. If you are using a different browser by default, then this is pretty useless. In my screenshot you can see that the opera. This is due to a recent cant. Any browser opens in opera. There was no time to fix this, so I had to make such a screen.

- Tablet PC Input Panel - creates a button that you can use to quickly launch the tablet PC input window.

- Desktop - will add a toolbar with all desktop shortcuts.

- Create toolbar is the most useful option as it allows you to add custom toolbars. When you select this option, a new window will appear. Navigate to the folder you want to use as a tool and click "select folder", after which you will get quick access to the selected item.

You can also see an element such as "", when you click on which, the familiar language switching panel will move to a separate place. Hover over the language bar, hold down the left button and drag to anywhere on the taskbar. Then the panel will be installed in its original place. Customizing the windows 7 taskbar will not take much of your time.

The taskbar is in Windows one of the main mechanisms of control and user interaction with the system. Therefore, the comfort of your work with the OS and the computer as a whole will directly depend on its setting and setting up those important elements that are located on it.

Task bar

To go to settings Taskbars and start menu need to right click on start button in the lower left corner of the screen and in the opened context menu select the item Properties... After that, a window will open in front of you Taskbar and Start Menu Properties, the settings of the components of which we will consider.

By the way, the taskbar settings can be accessed from Control panelsby clicking on the item with a telling name Taskbar and Start Menu.

The Taskbar and Start Menu window contains three tabs: Task bar, Start Menu and Toolbars, which are responsible for configuring the settings of the corresponding Windows components.

Customizing the Taskbar and Notification Area

At the top of the tab are the settings that are responsible for the design and display of the taskbar.

Dock the taskbar ... By selecting the checkbox in this item, you can fix the taskbar on the monitor screen in the place where it is currently located. At the same time, it will be impossible to stretch, shift or collapse. As a rule, this item is checked by default. If you want to increase the height of the taskbar (when located at the top or bottom of the screen) or its width (when located on the left or right of the screen), as well as change the size of the notification area and toolbar, then uncheck this item. After that, you can do all the above operations by dragging the borders of the desired areas with the mouse.

Hide the taskbar automatically. Activating this parameter will allow you to use the maximum desktop area during work, since the control panel will be hidden and will no longer be displayed on the screen all the time in front of all windows. To open the panel in this mode, move the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen along which it is located.

Use small icons. This option allows you to reduce the icons for programs and open applications located on the taskbar. Thus, you can achieve an expansion of the workspace and an increase in the number of displayed items on the panel itself.

Position of the taskbar on the screen. Allows you to select from the drop-down menu where the panel will be placed on the screen. You have four options: Bottom, Top, Right, or Left.

Taskbar buttons. At this point, you can choose how the icons of running programs and open windows will be displayed on the taskbar:

• Always group, hide labels. This mode is activated by default and allows you to expand the free space on the taskbar due to the fact that icons of similar open applications are grouped, and the icons themselves do not have their names. For example, if you have opened several explorer windows at once, they will be grouped in the taskbar into one icon, which will be displayed as several rectangles superimposed on each other.
• Group when filling the taskbar. Unlike the previous version, this mode is more informative for the user. All icons of open applications are located on the taskbar separately and are labeled with the names of the windows in which they are launched. Icons are grouped only when the taskbar is full and there is no free space to accommodate new icons.
• Do not group. The grouping of icons of open programs does not occur under any circumstances.

In the middle of the Taskbar tab is the item Notification area , which is responsible for setting the display of system icons and icons of background programs, as well as their messages in the notification area (tray).

After clicking on the Settings button, you will see a window with a list of all the icons of background and system applications, next to which you can select their behavior in the tray from three available options:

• Show icon and notifications
• Hide icon and notifications
• Show only notifications

Below the general list of all icons are items Turning system icons on and off (Clock, Volume, Network, Power and Help Center), as well as Restoring default icon behavior... You can also activate the option Always show icons and notifications on the taskbar.

And finally, in the lower area of \u200b\u200bthe bookmark we are considering, there is an option setting Desktop previewusingAeroPeek... Activation of this function allows when you hover the mouse cursor over the button Minimize all windows, perform a quick temporary view of the content Desktop... At the same time, open windows are not minimized, as is the case when this button is pressed, but become transparent.

Customizing the Start Menu

Let's move on to studying the next tab of the window with a telling name. Start Menu... As you probably already guessed, options are located here that are responsible for setting the parameters of one of the key components of Windows system management, which is called using the button of the same name located at the very beginning of the taskbar.

The appearance of the Start menu and the elements of which it consists, as well as the behavior of objects and icons in it, are affected by a lot of parameters that simply would not fit on this tab. This is probably why the developers took them out in a separate window, which opens after pressing the button Tune... We'll talk about this a little later, but for now let's return to our tab and consider those few parameters that are still located on it.

Power button action ... With the help of this item, you can configure the action of the system that will occur after you press the physical power button located on the computer case. To do this, you must select any of the six options from the drop-down menu:

• Completion of work - leads to the complete closure of all programs, logout and shutdown of the computer. This action is set by default.
• Change user - causes the user to log out of the system to the account selection screen without closing the running programs.
• End of session - causes the user to log out of the system to the account selection screen and close all running applications.
• Locking your computer - leads to system blocking without closing running programs. To resume work, the user will need to enter a password.
- leads to the closure of all applications, exit the system and restart the computer.
• Sleep - puts the computer into a state of low power consumption. In this case, all parameters of the current session are saved, which allows you to quickly resume work in the future.

Confidentiality ... This option contains two items that allow you to show or hide recently opened programs, files, or documents on the left side of the Start menu. Everything is simple here - if the checkboxes are checked, then the display is allowed, if unchecked, it is prohibited.

Now let's look at the parameters that are contained in the window Customizing the Start Menucalled by the above button Tune.

This window contains quite a few settings, but there is no point in examining all of them in detail. Many points have self-explanatory names and do not need any additional comments, but for some we will nevertheless make small explanations.

Most of the Start menu settings concern the display of thematic user folders and menus, including: Videos, Music, Documents, Homegroup, Games, Pictures, Personal folder, Favorites, Recent documents, TV recordings and Downloads, as well as basic elements management: Administrative Tools group, Run command, Computer, Control Panel, Network, Connect to, Default Programs, Help, Devices and Printers.

Depending on the menu item, several display options can be applied to it:

• Do not display this item
• Display as menu - the group will be displayed on the right side of the Start menu as a folder with an arrow that opens automatically when you hover over the mouse.
• Display as link - the item will be displayed on the right side of the Start menu as a regular link, after clicking on which, a new window will open with the contents of the folder of the same name.

Highlight recently installed programs ... If this option is checked, the system in the Start menu and the All Programs group will highlight new (recently installed) applications and folders in which they are contained in dark yellow.

Search in other files and libraries ... An item that allows you to expand the places of searching for the necessary information or to speed up the search process itself by disabling scanning of shared folders.

Search Control Panel Programs and Features ... When this parameter is activated, you can search for the desired objects in Control panels systems.

Large icons ... Unchecking this item will reduce the icons of the most frequently launched programs, the list of which is located on the left side of the Start menu. This will increase the number of displayed applications in this list.

Allow context menu and object dragging ... Activating this parameter allows you to call the context menu of the Start menu objects, as well as drag them with the mouse to various work areas of the system. For example, you can drag the program icon from the Start Menu to the Desktop, or vice versa, add a link to the application in the Start menu by dragging the icon there from any open window.

In addition to the above parameters, at the bottom of the settings window there are two more elements with which you can adjust the size, or rather the height of the Start menu. They regulate the display of the number of positions in the lists of recently used programs and elements.

Customizing Toolbars

As in previous versions of operating systems, Windows 7 introduces the ability to work with toolbars, which are used to quickly launch program components and access resources.

Initially, the system includes only a few standard toolbars: Address, Links, Tablet PC Input Panel, and Desktop. But as new applications are installed, the list of these panels will expand. For example, in our case, you see the appearance of an additional iTunes panel.

You can also create your own toolbars yourself. To do this, right-click on the free space on Taskbars and in the opened context menu select the item Panelsand then the command Create toolbarat.

Controlling the display of toolbars is intuitive. To do this, simply uncheck or check the box next to the desired panel and press the button Apply.

The appearance of the taskbar in Windows 7 is different from the taskbar in Windows XP. In Windows 7, it has an elegant, semi-transparent look.

However, there is no separate Quick Launch bar, like in Windows XP, in Windows 7. Program shortcuts are placed right on the taskbar, along with tabs of open programs. And it's easy to place a shortcut to the programs you use every day on the taskbar.

Left-click on the icon of the desired program on the desktop, and without releasing the mouse button, drag the icon down to the taskbar (shown by a red arrow). Then you release, and the shortcut will remain on the taskbar, becoming available at any time.

When, however, the shortcut on the taskbar becomes unnecessary - click on it, without releasing the left mouse button, pull the shortcut up and "drop" it onto the desktop. The shortcut will immediately disappear from the taskbar.

Practice it - it may not work the first time. Sometimes the taskbar slips away if the settings say: Automatically hide the taskbar. By the way, you can customize the taskbar yourself as you like. Here's how to do it.

Right-click on the Start button. A context menu will open, in which you select the Properties link.

The Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window opens. If you want the taskbar (the bar at the bottom of the screen) to be visible all the time and not disappear anywhere - then check the box in front of the Lock the taskbar, and uncheck the box in front of Automatically hide the taskbar - uncheck it.

If you want the taskbar to appear only when you move the cursor to the bottom edge of the screen (desktop), then on the contrary - uncheck the box in front of "Dock the taskbar", and check the box in front of "Automatically hide the taskbar". The rest of the taskbar settings are less important, so I will not dwell on them.

How to install the Quick Launch Bar in Windows XP

You say: but I do not have such a panel! It means it is not activated.

To activate the Quick Launch, anywhere on the taskbar (but right-click. The context menu of the taskbar will open. Select Properties.

The Taskbar Properties window opens.

Here, check the box next to Show Quick Launch Bar. If the checkbox is not checked, then the panel is disabled.

checkmark (checkbox) opposite Display the taskbar on top of other windows.

And I also check the box next to Automatically hide the taskbar. If you don't, it means that it will stick out at the bottom of the screen all the time. I think it's more convenient when she is hiding, only to get used to it.

The rest of the items on this tab are not so important and understandable without explanation. If you uncheck the box next to Display clock, it means that your clock will be lost, etc.

Just do not forget to activate all the checkboxes that you have installed, click the Apply button, and then OK.

How to add a shortcut (icon) to the Quick Launch in Windows XP

To add an icon to the Quick Launch, hover the cursor over the desired icon on the desktop, press the left mouse button and drag the icon to the taskbar. When a vertical black line appears, release the button and the icon appears on the panel.

If you decide to move the icons relative to each other, you also grab the icon with the cursor and drag along the Quick Launch bar, and the vertical bar will move and show where the icon will be if you release the mouse button. This way you can arrange the icons in the order you like.

Of course, you might like the convenience the Quick Launch provides and start lugging around unlimited icons. As a result, icons can fill the entire taskbar, and this is no good!

But there is a way out of this situation! You can hide some of the icons. To do this, move the cursor over the separator (circled in red in Fig. 5). The cursor will then turn into arrows pointing left and right. At this moment, press the left mouse button and drag the separator to the left. As you move the separator, the icons will disappear. I usually leave 4-5 icons visible.

Don't be afraid for the hidden icons - they won't go anywhere! Just click on the arrow (circled in red in Fig. 6) and all hidden icons will appear before your eyes. Click any icon and the program starts!

The taskbar (aka taskbar) in operating systems of the Windows family is called a special control and visualization that shows the current launched apps, connected devices, watches, etc. Initially located in bottom parts of the screen. It also contains icons of programs or folders for quick launch, if this function was enabled in the settings. To the left of the taskbar is the famous button Start, by clicking on which most users start their work. Let's go through the items related to settings and other features. taskbar.

Returning the panel to its original position

You need to perform some actions to return the position of the taskbar to its original position.

Through standard settings

Right-click on the menu Start or the free part of the taskbar, in the opened context menu, select " Properties«.

This will open a window for changing the start and taskbar settings. We switch to the tab “ Task bar", In chapter " Position of the taskbar on the screen»Choose what you need. For example, let's try to change to “ From below". Press the button " OK»To save the results.

Users Windows XP will not find the setting of the position of the taskbar in the standard start options, as can be seen from the screenshot of the screen, there is no such section at all in the design section, so they are recommended to use the following instruction.

Using drag and drop

Move the mouse arrow to panels, right-click on an empty area and uncheck the “ Dock the panel ". We do this in order to enable the user move the taskbar to the right place, otherwise the system will lock the panel and prevent the necessary manipulations.

Now we right-click on free part of the panel and, without releasing the button, drag it to needed edge of the screen. Can be moved to the left, top, right, or bottom. After, click again on free parts of taskbar and fix panel by ticking the corresponding item.

Using the Registry Editor

More advanced users can use the following method. The registry key " StuckRects2"Which is located at" HKEY_CURRENT_USER \\ Software \\ Microsoft \\ Windows \\ CurrentVersion \\ Explorer \\ StuckRects2". In this registry branch we find the file “ Settings“That will need to be changed.

Open the settings file double by pressing. In the window that opens, we will see a set of numbers and letters, and you need to change it.

Delete all and enter the values \u200b\u200bbelow (do not enter commas):

• For moving down: 28, 00, 00, 00, ff, ff, ff, ff, 02, 00, 00, 00, 03, 00, 00, 00, 3e, 00, 00, 00, 2e, 00, 00, 00, 00 , 00, 00, 00, 82, 04, 00, 00, 80, 07, 00, 00, b0, 04, 00, 00
• Up: 28, 00, 00, 00, ff, ff, ff, ff, 02, 00, 00, 00, 01, 00, 00, 00, 3e, 00, 00, 00, 2e, 00, 00, 00, 00 , 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 80, 07, 00, 00, 2e, 00, 00, 00
• Left: 28, 00, 00, 00, ff, ff, ff, ff, 02, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 3e, 00, 00, 00, 2e, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 3e, 00, 00, 00, b0, 04, 00, 00
• To the right: 28, 00, 00, 00, ff, ff, ff, ff, 02, 00, 00, 00, 02, 00, 00, 00, 3e, 00, 00, 00, 2e, 00, 00, 00, 42 , 07, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 80, 07, 00, 00, b0, 04, 00, 00

Thereafter reboot computer

Hide the taskbar

Windows allows you to make the panel appear only when you hover over it with the mouse (over the area where the taskbar is located):

Resizing icons

I have an opportunity reduce or to enlarge the size of the panel icons, if they have been previously reduced. For this we open properties menu Start, activate the tab “ Task bar"And mark the item" Use small icons”Or remove it if such a result is required.

Back to Windows XP again. There not implemented resizing icons through the properties of the launch. Dealing with the situation in the following way:

Can to enlarge the number of icons in the quick launch section. For this:

Frequent taskbar malfunctions

It may happen that the taskbar and Start are just disappeared, and instead only the desktop image is displayed. Causes can be different - this is the malicious work of viruses or various system mistakes... The solution can also be different, sometimes you need manually edit some sections of the system registry, and sometimes a simple computer or a separate restart of the service helps " explorer. exe«.

Restore taskbar in Windows 10

If the panel not displayed in the tenth Windows:

• launch command line on behalf of the administrator, enter the command or copy from the article (then right mouse button and paste the copied text) " exe / Online / Cleanup-image / Restorehealth". We are waiting for the end of the execution process;
• upon completion, enter a new command “ Sfc / scannow", Press the button" Enter»And look forward to the end.

Upon completion restart system.

Method two:

• with administrator rights, run the program " PowerShell«;
• insert or print " Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach (Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$ ($ _. InstallLocation) \\ AppXManifest.xml") "(Without quotes), click Enter. Reboot.

If, before the problem occurred, the user cleaned the system registry with third-party programs, then recommended restore cleared keys (if archiving of cleared results is supported by the program and was enabled earlier), the program may have accidentally removed the necessary data along with the garbage.

Additional features of the taskbar

Taskbar displays the quick launch bar, which can be disabled in the Start menu settings, open folders and launched programs. Various toolbars can be added to the taskbar. You can turn on the display hours or hide them altogether.

You can enable grouping similar panel buttons or disable this function, configure the button action shutdown on the keyboard, change design and functional menu to classic or standard, enable or disable display list recently used programs and open files.

Sometimes users are faced with the fact that taskbar disappeared... Neither you go to the "Start" menu, nor see running programs ... In general, a complete inconvenience. How do I get the taskbar back in place?

If the taskbar disappeared, do not rush to panic and roll back the system or reinstall the OS: perhaps not everything is as bad as it seems. If only the taskbar is missing from the desktop, and all the shortcuts and gadgets are in place, most likely the taskbar is just hidden.

To show the taskbar again, you need to move the mouse cursor over the place where it was (the standard location is at the bottom of the screen). If the taskbar is not showing, move the cursor to the top of the screen and to the sides: the panel may have simply been moved. The cursor must be moved to the very edge of the screen.

How do I stop the taskbar from disappearing? This requires disable hiding taskbar... To do this, go to Control Panel (Start - Control Panel) and select "Taskbar and Start Menu". Alternatively, you can right-click on the taskbar and select "Properties". In the window that opens, uncheck the box next to "Automatically hide the taskbar" and click OK.

If the taskbar disappeared when starting Windows XP, it may be due to corrupted user account settings... The "symptoms" of this problem are the taskbar not being displayed at login and the inability to open the Start menu with the Ctrl + Escape key combination. In this case, if you go to Windows, the taskbar is displayed.

there is several ways to solve this problem:

• Start Windows in clean boot mode with a minimal set of drivers - it is possible that a driver loaded by a specific program is the reason for the disappearance of the taskbar (usually video adapter drivers cause this problem). If so, you just need to remove the problematic drivers.
• Log in with an administrator account and create a new user account to replace the damaged one.
• If the previous methods did not help, perform a system restore. This will replace all damaged Windows files with normal ones, and your personal files and installed programs will remain intact.

If your taskbar not only disappeared, but the desktop (icons, gadgets, etc.) did not load, this means that the explorer.exe process could not be executed... We have already described the ways to solve this problem in the article "", but just in case we will repeat the main points.

To start start task managerby using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Delete or Ctrl + Shift + Escape. From the File menu, select New Task (Run ...), type explorer.exe, click OK. The desktop should return to its place along with the taskbar.

After that, you definitely need scan the system for virusesand also check the registry for keys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \\ SOFTWARE \\ Microsoft \\ WindowsNT \\ CurrentVersion \\ Image File Execution Options \\ explorer.exe and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \\ SOFTWARE \\ Microsoft \\ WindowsNT \\ CurrentVersion \\ Image File Execution Options \\ iexplorer.exe... If these keys are present, delete them.

So, if your taskbar is missing, you should suspect three main reasons:

• someone has turned on automatic hiding of the taskbar;
• the user account in Windows XP was damaged;
• the explorer.exe process failed, most likely due to a virus.

If the "soft" methods of dealing with the problem (creating a new account, removing defective drivers, cleaning the system from viruses) do not help, you should not rush to reinstall the system. Better try to restore the systemby rolling back to one of the created ones, then you do not have to reinstall all programs.