Make vertical toolbar width smaller

I prefer my taskbar to be vertical on the left side of the screen. With XP I
can narrow it down to about 2/5 of an inch... just wide enough to show the
time and have all the systray icons stacked on top of each other in one
column.

With Vista the narrowest I can make it is about double that width. Anyone
know if there's any way of making it smaller?

pher

Hi,

No way that I am familiar with. Does seem odd that you can't narrow it back
to a single width when vertical. But, I still haven't figured out what
prompted the decision to lock the Quicklaunch bar to the taskbar as well.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"pher" <chapka56@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I prefer my taskbar to be vertical on the left side of the screen. With XP
>I
> can narrow it down to about 2/5 of an inch... just wide enough to show the
> time and have all the systray icons stacked on top of each other in one
> column.
>
> With Vista the narrowest I can make it is about double that width. Anyone
> know if there's any way of making it smaller?
>
> pher
>

:-)
now I have one more problem: how to unlock the Quick Launch bar ...



"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> No way that I am familiar with. Does seem odd that you can't narrow it
> back to a single width when vertical. But, I still haven't figured out
> what prompted the decision to lock the Quicklaunch bar to the taskbar as
> well.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "pher" <chapka56@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news7-dnUzyMdAi1g7bnZ2dnUVZ8tChnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>I prefer my taskbar to be vertical on the left side of the screen. With XP
>>I
>> can narrow it down to about 2/5 of an inch... just wide enough to show
>> the
>> time and have all the systray icons stacked on top of each other in one
>> column.
>>
>> With Vista the narrowest I can make it is about double that width. Anyone
>> know if there's any way of making it smaller?
>>
>> pher
>>
>

[zed5000]

I had the same problem i.e. if I put the vista toolbar vertical on the left side of the screen the narrowest was approx 1 cm.

The culprit turned out to be the arrangement of the icons in the 'notification' area. For some reason they were arranged in pairs and causing the toolbar width to be increased.

The solution was simply to go into Toolbars / Properties then select the notification tab and deselect all the system icons (also select Hide inactive icons). This shrinks the toolbar width to 1/2 cm. You can then add the system icons back in (I did it one at a time) and they will stack up vertically and not widen the toolbar.

hope this works for you!

z