{"id":1086,"date":"2011-03-15T18:55:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T23:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2012-11-11T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T14:00:49","slug":"turn-off-tasbar-always-on-top-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2011\/turn-off-tasbar-always-on-top-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn off tasbar “Always on top” in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I could not live without this hack. Placing the Windows taskbar on the lefthand side, with auto-hide on, gives you more screen real estate AND more taskbar width when it pops out when needed, via Ctrl-Esc. I’ve been configuring Windows this way for decades. How can people stand that little strip at the bottom flashing at them all day? Seems like a little thing… but to me it’s huge. It actually determines who’s in charge – am I sitting at my computer to be told what I should do via little popup notifications, or am I there to get something done, checking on any notifications when I’m ready to address them? Sure, my friends can get annoyed that I take an hour to respond to an instant message, but I’m getting stuff done. Anyway, I’ve gotta keep this thing<\/a> handy… (or just resist the urge to boot into Windows to play games…) :><\/p>\n

UPDATE: the original hack hasn’t kept pace with Explorer updates, and hasn’t been open sourced so others can do it. On page 17<\/a> of that forum post, another hack<\/a> was provided that seems to be working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I could not live without this hack. Placing the Windows taskbar on the lefthand side, with auto-hide on, gives you more screen real estate AND more taskbar width when it pops out when needed, via Ctrl-Esc. I’ve been configuring Windows this way for decades. How can people stand that little strip at the bottom flashing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[165,109],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks-tips-tools","category-windows-projects","tag-annoyances","tag-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t