Quick launch toolbar changes size

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Each time I boot up Windows 98SE, My quick launch toolbar shrinks so that I
can see only four of the eight icons in the toolbar. The order of the icons
is also changed. To fix the toolbar, I must drag it to the right and
rearrange the icons every time I boot up. Is there a way to fix this without
re-installing Windows?

 

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Lubens wrote:
> Each time I boot up Windows 98SE, My quick launch toolbar shrinks so
> that I can see only four of the eight icons in the toolbar. The
> order of the icons is also changed. To fix the toolbar, I must drag
> it to the right and rearrange the icons every time I boot up. Is
> there a way to fix this without re-installing Windows?

Sure. Make it bigger and set it to autohide.

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dadiOH wrote:

> Lubens wrote:
>
>>Each time I boot up Windows 98SE, My quick launch toolbar shrinks so
>>that I can see only four of the eight icons in the toolbar. The
>>order of the icons is also changed. To fix the toolbar, I must drag
>>it to the right and rearrange the icons every time I boot up. Is
>>there a way to fix this without re-installing Windows?
>
> Sure. Make it bigger and set it to autohide.

When arranged the whay you want it, rightclick on an emty part of the
taskbar and check 'Lock the Taskbar'.

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> Lubens wrote:
> > Each time I boot up Windows 98SE, My quick launch toolbar shrinks so
> > that I can see only four of the eight icons in the toolbar. The
> > order of the icons is also changed. To fix the toolbar, I must drag
> > it to the right and rearrange the icons every time I boot up. Is
> > there a way to fix this without re-installing Windows?

dadiOH wrote:
> Sure. Make it bigger and set it to autohide.
>
Wrong answer!

 

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Dave D wrote:
>> Lubens wrote:
>>> Each time I boot up Windows 98SE, My quick launch toolbar shrinks so
>>> that I can see only four of the eight icons in the toolbar. The
>>> order of the icons is also changed. To fix the toolbar, I must drag
>>> it to the right and rearrange the icons every time I boot up. Is
>>> there a way to fix this without re-installing Windows?
>
> dadiOH wrote:
>> Sure. Make it bigger and set it to autohide.
>>
> Wrong answer!

Tried it?

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Make *what* bigger? The Task Bar? Double height?

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> Dave D wrote:
> >> Lubens wrote:
> >>> Each time I boot up Windows 98SE, My quick launch toolbar shrinks
so
> >>> that I can see only four of the eight icons in the toolbar. The
> >>> order of the icons is also changed. To fix the toolbar, I must
drag
> >>> it to the right and rearrange the icons every time I boot up. Is
> >>> there a way to fix this without re-installing Windows?
> >
> > dadiOH wrote:
> >> Sure. Make it bigger and set it to autohide.
> >>
> > Wrong answer!
>
> Tried it?
>
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Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> Make *what* bigger? The Task Bar? Double height?

Right, the task bar. OP complained that his QuickLaunch toolbar kept
"shrinking" so that he could only see four of the eight icons thereon.
One way to fix it is to give the taskbar more real estate.

Now, I know people are fixated on an itsy bitsy taskbar at the bottom of
the CRT - one that is always there - so I suggested he make the taskbar
bigger and set it to auto hide so it wouldn't be in his way but always
available.

Apparently, Dave D disagrees with me. So who cares, haven't seen an
answer from him and apparently he hasn't bothered to try it.

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I, too, fail to see how your suggestion would result in the desired end.
The reason the QL toolbar reverts to "Closed" (showing only three icons
and hiding the rest behind a >>) would have nothing to do with the
Taskbar being double high, and nothing to do with how "crowded" it is.
Only difference I can see is that while the default width would still be
three icons, the total number would be three wide by two high, or six
icons instead of three.

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"dadiOH" <dadiOH@x-mail.net> wrote in message
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> Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> > Make *what* bigger? The Task Bar? Double height?
>
> Right, the task bar. OP complained that his QuickLaunch toolbar kept
> "shrinking" so that he could only see four of the eight icons thereon.
> One way to fix it is to give the taskbar more real estate.
>
> Now, I know people are fixated on an itsy bitsy taskbar at the bottom
of
> the CRT - one that is always there - so I suggested he make the
taskbar
> bigger and set it to auto hide so it wouldn't be in his way but always
> available.
>
> Apparently, Dave D disagrees with me. So who cares, haven't seen an
> answer from him and apparently he hasn't bothered to try it.
>
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>
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> LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
> Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
>
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Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> I, too, fail to see how your suggestion would result in the desired
> end. The reason the QL toolbar reverts to "Closed" (showing only
> three icons and hiding the rest behind a >>) would have nothing to do
> with the Taskbar being double high, and nothing to do with how
> "crowded" it is. Only difference I can see is that while the default
> width would still be three icons, the total number would be three
> wide by two high, or six icons instead of three

I have no idea what the default is, don't use QuickLaunch and my taskbar
is on the side. But if default is 3 wide, what in the world prevents
him from dragging the taskbar up high enough for three rows, not just
two? Or four rows...or five, six...let the imagination soar



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Yours is a "workaround", not a solution. And a rather unsatisfactory
one, at that.

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> Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> > I, too, fail to see how your suggestion would result in the desired
> > end. The reason the QL toolbar reverts to "Closed" (showing only
> > three icons and hiding the rest behind a >>) would have nothing to
do
> > with the Taskbar being double high, and nothing to do with how
> > "crowded" it is. Only difference I can see is that while the default
> > width would still be three icons, the total number would be three
> > wide by two high, or six icons instead of three
>
> I have no idea what the default is, don't use QuickLaunch and my
taskbar
> is on the side. But if default is 3 wide, what in the world prevents
> him from dragging the taskbar up high enough for three rows, not just
> two? Or four rows...or five, six...let the imagination soar
>
>
>
> --
> dadiOH
> ____________________________
>
> dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
> ...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
> LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
> Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
>
>

 

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> "dadiOH" <dadiOH@x-mail.net> wrote in message
> news:%23oDJ41aJFHA.2928@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Dave D wrote:
> > >> Lubens wrote:
> > >>> Each time I boot up Windows 98SE, My quick launch toolbar shrinks
> so
> > >>> that I can see only four of the eight icons in the toolbar. The
> > >>> order of the icons is also changed. To fix the toolbar, I must
> drag
> > >>> it to the right and rearrange the icons every time I boot up. Is
> > >>> there a way to fix this without re-installing Windows?
> > >
> > > dadiOH wrote:
> > >> Sure. Make it bigger and set it to autohide.
> > >>
> > > Wrong answer!
> >
> > Tried it?
> >
"Gary S. Terhune" <grystnews@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Make *what* bigger? The Task Bar? Double height?
>
I realy do think your reply should appear here. His answer was wrong.

 

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My reply to what? The original question? The answer, as far as I know,
is "If Lock Taskbar" doesn't do it, I doubt it can be done.

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> > "dadiOH" <dadiOH@x-mail.net> wrote in message
> > news:%23oDJ41aJFHA.2928@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > Dave D wrote:
> > > >> Lubens wrote:
> > > >>> Each time I boot up Windows 98SE, My quick launch toolbar
shrinks
> > so
> > > >>> that I can see only four of the eight icons in the toolbar.
The
> > > >>> order of the icons is also changed. To fix the toolbar, I
must
> > drag
> > > >>> it to the right and rearrange the icons every time I boot up.
Is
> > > >>> there a way to fix this without re-installing Windows?
> > > >
> > > > dadiOH wrote:
> > > >> Sure. Make it bigger and set it to autohide.
> > > >>
> > > > Wrong answer!
> > >
> > > Tried it?
> > >
> "Gary S. Terhune" <grystnews@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:ezfFSPbJFHA.384@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Make *what* bigger? The Task Bar? Double height?
> >
> I realy do think your reply should appear here. His answer was wrong.
>
>

 

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Dave D wrote:

> I realy do think your reply should appear here.

What, he's your big brother??
______________

> His answer was wrong.

So tell the OP whatever you think is correct. I repeat, tried it?

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Gary S. Terhune wrote:

> My reply to what? The original question? The answer, as far as I know,
> is "If Lock Taskbar" doesn't do it, I doubt it can be done.

If you are referring to my 'Lock the Taskbar' suggestion.
I booted into Win98 and notice that, oops, it is not present there as it
is for WinXP where i had checked it out before posting. Sorry.

And Gary, are your "I doubt it can be done." meaning it *should* shrink?
Because when i now test, in Win98SE, by putting eight items in 'Quick
Launch' and resizing the size of its taskbar so all items are shown,
then rebooting the toolbarposition remains so all items are still visible.

Maybe the OP can test by dragging the 'Quick Launch' toolbar, by its
handle on its left side, to the right past the main (taskbutton) toolbar
and see if it will display all eight icons there next to the SystemTray
after a restart. Just something else, easy to test, if dadiOH's
suggestion isn't satisfying.

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Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> Yours is a "workaround", not a solution. And a rather unsatisfactory
> one, at that.

So fix it for him.

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I already gave my answer on the subject: If it won't save the settings,
there is every possibility that it can't be fixed. This is one of those
areas of Windows that is very touchy, and whereas on an ideal or even
average system the setting should stick (cf the second post in this
thread from ...et al), there are a sizable number of systems where you
simply have to accept that the setting won't stick. I have yet to see
these types of "problems" respond to more than lucky happenstance in
discovering what part of the system's environment happened to be
interfering with expected behavior. Saving settings, a properly
performing Standby... All of these are dependent upon so many variables
that t-shooting is, for all intents and purposes, a futile
exercise--unless you are *really* bored with life.

None of that changes the fact and opinions expressed in my previous
post: What's more, taskbar settings not being properly saved
significantly increases the chances that an "autohide" Taskbar will also
be cantankerous. Never mind the fact that you are suggesting the OP
"fix" a relatively minor blemish by soaking up another ten percent of
the desktop real estate.

Sometimes the answer really is, "You'd be much better off letting that
particular sleeping dog lie undisturbed."

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> Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> > Yours is a "workaround", not a solution. And a rather unsatisfactory
> > one, at that.
>
> So fix it for him.
>
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> LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
> Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
>
>

 

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As dadiOH & ... et al. are saying, play with moving it around, turning
it on/off, etc. Otherwise, go look for an article...

http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?fr=0&SD=GN&LN=EN-US MSKB
Search "Taskbar"; Windows 98; Title Only; produces many, including...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;247502&Product=w98
Taskbar Missing in Windows 95/98/Me

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;229137&Product=w98
Taskbar May Disappear When Using the Magnifier Tool
(229137) - When you are using the Magnifier tool, the taskbar on the
desktop may not be displayed.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;199161&Product=w98
Unable to See or Use the Taskbar
(199161) - When you try to use the taskbar, you may not be able to see
it or use it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;129417&Product=w98
Taskbar Options Not Restored After Using Safe Mode
(129417) - After you start Windows in Safe mode and then restart Windows
normally, your non-default taskbar options are lost. For example, if you
selected the "Show small icons in Start menu" option, this option is no
longer selected after you start Windows in...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;134237&Product=w98
Taskbar is Not Visible in Windows
(134237) - When you run Windows, the taskbar is not visible on the
screen.


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"Lubens" <Lubens@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Each time I boot up Windows 98SE, My quick launch toolbar shrinks so
that I
| can see only four of the eight icons in the toolbar. The order of the
icons
| is also changed. To fix the toolbar, I must drag it to the right and
| rearrange the icons every time I boot up. Is there a way to fix this
without
| re-installing Windows?
|