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Windows 98 Taskbar - Toolbar

Resizing the Taskbar

SUMMARY: Shrink or enlarge Windows 98's taskbar.

If you place the taskbar on the left or right-hand side of the screen, if you run many applications at once, or if you have many toolbars on your taskbar, you will noticed there is very little room left for the names of your running applications.

To fix this, move your mouse to the border of the taskbar which you wish to extend. This will take some practice, but get your pointer to the place where it changes from your default one (probably an arrow pointing diagonally in one direction) to an arrow pointing two opposite directions. Now, hold the left mouse button down and keep it held down. Move the mouse to the direction where you wish to extend the taskbar. As you do this, a hollow rectangle will be seen giving you an estimate of how big the taskbar will become. When you find a taskbar size comfortable for you, release the mouse bar. The taskbar will grow (or shrink if you set it up that way), and all of the desktop icons and the currently running programs will move and resize.

You can also move and resize toolbars on your taskbar. Move your mouse to a toolbar left-side border until it turns into a pointer with two arrows. Click and drag the mouse left or right to extend or shrink the toolbar's size.

 

 
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