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Seem to be an awful lot of people with raised taskbars. Presumably they don't believe in the "mile-high menu bar".

Silence, master of the dual screen setup.

I can't stand raised taskbars. I've got a couple of vista-esque dllstyles for XP and always have a thin taskbar.

Alexia wrote:I can't stand raised taskbars.

Neither can I.

Surely the machine's there to concentrate on what you're doing at the moment, in a nice big window, not on what you might want to do in a quarter of an hour.

Does anyone here actually use "Auto Hide"? I find it rather annoying personally. It had a use back when everyone was on 640x480, but now...

See, it all comes down to my theory that vertical screen space is a lot more valuable than horizontal screen space on widescreen monitors. Hence, I love the Outlook four-pane view where the horizontal screen space is filled up and the vertical screen space has a minimum of toolbars and rubbish.

cdd wrote:Seem to be an awful lot of people with raised taskbars. Presumably they don't believe in the "mile-high menu bar".

That would depend on what you mean by 'mile-high menu bar'. And I couldn't possibly live with a single-level taskbar. Once it starts getting into program grouping, I become very sad.

I never have enough programs open at a time though, the only thing that used to cause it was when I had loads of IE6 windows back in the dark ages, but these days I very rarely trigger the grouping thing.

I also hate when the taskbar is in the wrong place, like the top or the side.

lukey wrote:

cdd wrote:Seem to be an awful lot of people with raised taskbars. Presumably they don't believe in the "mile-high menu bar".

That would depend on what you mean by 'mile-high menu bar'. And I couldn't possibly live with a single-level taskbar. Once it starts getting into program grouping, I become very sad.

Turn off program grouping then. Surely you can tell what programs you're running by the icon and the first few letters?

Alexia wrote:

lukey wrote:

cdd wrote:Seem to be an awful lot of people with raised taskbars. Presumably they don't believe in the "mile-high menu bar".

That would depend on what you mean by 'mile-high menu bar'. And I couldn't possibly live with a single-level taskbar. Once it starts getting into program grouping, I become very sad.

Turn off program grouping then. Surely you can tell what programs you're running by the icon and the first few letters?

Just realised I already have it turned off. But the only reason I expanded it to a second row (I'm talking about what, a ~15px loss in vertical screen real estate?) is because there will be times where I might have a half dozen folders open, a few VS projects open, multiple Notepad++ instances, and I've just realised why am I even bothering to justify this? :\