The taskbar (also known as taskbar) in operating systems Windows family called a special control and visualization element showing the current launched applications, connected devices, watches, etc. Initially located in bottom parts of the screen. It also contains icons of programs or folders for fast launch if this function has been enabled in the settings. To the left of the taskbar is the famous button Start, by clicking on which most users begin their work. Let's go through the points related to settings and other features taskbar.
Returning the panel to its original position
You need to perform some steps to return the taskbar position to its original position.
Through standard settings
Click right click mice menu Start or a free part of the taskbar in the opened context menu select " Properties«.
A window for changing startup settings and taskbar will open. Switch to the tab " Task bar", In chapter " Position of the taskbar on the screen» select what you need. For example, let's try changing it to " From below". Press the button " OK» to save the results. 
Users Windows XP will not find setting the position of the taskbar in the standard start options, as can be seen from the screenshot, there is no such section in the design section at all, so they are recommended to use the following instructions.
Using drag and drop
Move the mouse arrow to panels, right-click on the empty area and uncheck the “ Lock panel". We do this in order to enable the user move taskbar in Right place, otherwise the system will block the panel and will not allow you to perform the necessary manipulations. 
Now right-click on free part of the panel and, without releasing the button, drag it to necessary edge of the screen. Can be moved to the left edge, top, right or bottom. Afterwards, click on again free taskbar parts and we fix panel by checking the corresponding box.
Using the Registry Editor
More experienced users can use the following method. The position of the taskbar is controlled by the registry key " StuckRects2", which is located at " HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2". In this registry branch we find the file “ Settings", which will need to be changed.
Open the settings file double by pressing. In the window that opens we will see a set of numbers and letters, and this is what needs to be changed.
Delete everything and enter the values below (do not enter commas):
- For moving down: 28, 00, 00, 00, ff, ff, ff, ff, 02, 00, 00, 00, 03, 00, 00, 00, 3e, 00, 00, 00, 2e, 00, 00, 00, 00 , 00, 00, 00, 82, 04, 00, 00, 80, 07, 00, 00, b0, 04, 00, 00
- Up: 28, 00, 00, 00, ff, ff, ff, ff, 02, 00, 00, 00, 01, 00, 00, 00, 3e, 00, 00, 00, 2e, 00, 00, 00, 00 , 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 80, 07, 00, 00, 2e, 00, 00, 00
- Left: 28, 00, 00, 00, ff, ff, ff, ff, 02, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 3e, 00, 00, 00, 2e, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 3e, 00, 00, 00, b0, 04, 00, 00
- Right: 28, 00, 00, 00, ff, ff, ff, ff, 02, 00, 00, 00, 02, 00, 00, 00, 3e, 00, 00, 00, 2e, 00, 00, 00, 42 , 07, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 80, 07, 00, 00, b0, 04, 00, 00
After that reboot computer
Hiding the taskbar
Windows allows you to make the panel appear only when you hover over it with the mouse (over the area where the taskbar is located):
Changing the size of icons
I have an opportunity decrease or increase panel icon sizes, if they were previously reduced. For this we open properties menu Start, activate the tab “ Task bar" and check the box " Use small icons"or remove it if such a result is required.
Let's go back to Windows XP again. There not implemented Changing the size of icons through launch properties. Coping with the situation in the following way:
Can increase number of icons in the quick launch section. For this:
Frequent taskbar problems
It may happen that the taskbar and Start are simply disappeared, and instead of them only the desktop picture is displayed. Causes may be different - this is the malicious work of viruses or various system errors. The solution may also be different, sometimes it is necessary manually edit some sections system registry and sometimes it helps simple computer or a separate restart of the service " explorer. exe«.
Restoring the taskbar in Windows 10
If the panel not displayed in Windows ten:
- launch command line on behalf of the administrator, enter the command or copy from the article (then right mouse button and paste the copied text) " exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth". We are waiting for the completion of the execution process;
- upon completion, enter a new command “ Sfc /scannow", press the button " Enter"and wait for the end.
Upon completion restart system. 
Method two:
- run the program with administrator rights " PowerShell«;
- paste or print » Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach (Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml")"(without quotes), press Enter. Reboot.
If the user cleaned the system registry before the problem occurred third party programs, That recommended restore cleared keys (if archiving of cleared results is supported by the program and was enabled earlier), the program may accidentally deleted the necessary data along with garbage.
Additional features of the taskbar
Taskbar displays Quick Launch Bar, which can be disabled in the Start menu settings, open folders and launched programs. You can add various toolbars to the taskbar. You can turn on the display hours or hide them altogether.
Can be enabled grouping similar panel buttons or disable this function, configure the button action shutdown on the keyboard, change design And functional menu to classic or standard, enable or disable display list recently used programs and open files.
Sometimes users encounter that taskbar disappeared. You can’t go to the Start menu, you can’t look at running programs... In general, it’s a complete inconvenience. How to return the taskbar to its place?
If the taskbar disappears, do not rush to panic and roll back the system or reinstall the OS: perhaps not everything is as bad as it seems. If only the taskbar is missing on the desktop, but all shortcuts and gadgets are in place, most likely the taskbar is just hidden.
To show the taskbar again, you need to move the mouse cursor to the place where it was (the standard location is at the bottom of the screen). If the taskbar is not showing, move your cursor to the top of the screen and to the sides: the taskbar may have simply been moved. The cursor must be moved to the very edge of the screen.
How to make the taskbar no longer disappear? For this you need disable hiding taskbar. To do this, go to the Control Panel (Start - Control Panel) and select "Taskbar and Start Menu". Alternatively, you can right-click on the taskbar and select “Properties”. In the window that opens, uncheck the box next to “Automatically hide the taskbar” and click OK.
If the taskbar disappears when Windows startup XP may be to blame parameters damage account user. The “symptoms” of this problem are the taskbar not being displayed when logging in and the inability to open the Start menu using the Ctrl+Escape key combination. Moreover, if you log into Windows in , the taskbar is displayed.
Eat several ways to solve this problem:
- Start Windows in clean boot mode with a minimal set of drivers - possibly bootable specific program The driver is the reason why the taskbar has disappeared (usually video adapter drivers cause this problem). If this is the case, you just need to remove the problematic drivers.
- Log in as an administrator and create a new user account to replace the damaged one.
- If the previous methods did not help, perform a system restore. At the same time, everything damaged files Windows will be replaced with normal ones, and your personal files and installed programs will remain intact.
If your taskbar not only disappears, but your desktop (icons, gadgets, etc.) does not load, this means that The explorer.exe process could not execute. We have already described ways to solve this problem in the article “”, but just in case, we will repeat the main points.
To start launch task manager using the key combination Ctrl+Alt+Delete or Ctrl+Shift+Escape. From the "File" menu, select " New task(Run...)", enter explorer.exe, click OK. The desktop should return to its place along with the taskbar.
After this it is necessary scan the system for viruses, and also check the registry for keys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\explorer.exe And HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\iexplorer.exe. If these keys are present, remove them.
So, if your taskbar has disappeared, you should be suspicious three main reasons:
- someone turned on automatic hiding of the taskbar;
- the user account in Windows XP has been corrupted;
- The explorer.exe process did not execute, most likely due to a virus.
If “soft” methods of dealing with the problem do not help (creating a new account, removing defective drivers, cleaning the system from viruses), you still should not rush to reinstall the system. Better try to restore the system by rolling back to one of the created ones, then you will not have to reinstall all programs.
The interface elements that you most often have to deal with while working are: Task bar And Main menu. To make work as comfortable as possible, they need to be configured.
To open the settings dialog Taskbars And Main menu(Fig. 5.1), you need to right-click on any free area Taskbars and in the context menu that appears, select the item Properties.
Rice. 5.1. Taskbar Customization Dialog Box
The dialog box that appears contains four tabs, and the first one, active by default, is called Task bar. This tab contains the following checkboxes.
Pin the taskbar. When this checkbox is selected Task bar will always be visible on the screen. It cannot be moved or resized. If you uncheck this box, you can increase the width Taskbars or move it to the top, left or right border Desktop.
Automatically hide the taskbar. If you check this box, Task bar will automatically hide when the mouse pointer is outside it, and appear when it is at the bottom border Desktop(or at another border, if Task bar moved).
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Show the taskbar on top of other windows. If you clear this checkbox, when moving any window down Task bar will be overlapped by this window. Otherwise, it is always on top of all windows, regardless of their location.
Group similar buttons in the taskbar. This function allows you to save space on Taskbars. If you work with several duplicates of one program, for example, viewing several pages in a browser, the window buttons of these programs are grouped and turned into a menu (Fig. 5.2), that is, one button corresponds to all open windows of the same type. If you press this button, a menu opens in which you can select a window to activate. In this case, you can close the entire group of windows at once by clicking on the group button on Taskbars right click and run the command Close group.
Rice. 5.2. Grouped windows on the taskbar
Show Quick Launch Toolbar. The Quick Launch panel is located to the right of the button Start. There are several buttons on this panel. You can also place program shortcuts on the Quick Launch panel yourself. The Quick Launch panel is a convenient place to place shortcuts to the applications you use most often. This will allow you to quickly launch the desired program without minimizing open windows and without addressing Main menu. To add a shortcut to the Quick Launch panel, you need to drag it to this panel from Desktop or from an open window Conductor.
Do you remember that if the window button located on Taskbars, hover your mouse over a thumbnail of that window. If checkbox Show sample windows (thumbnails) remove, then when you hover over the window button, the thumbnail will not be displayed. Instead, a tooltip with the name of the window will appear. Please note that the window thumbnail will not be displayed anyway if your computer does not support the Aero theme.
Let's go to the tab Notification area. The notification area is on the right side Taskbars(Fig. 5.3).
Rice. 5.3. Notification Area tab
The notification area contains icons that are used to manage system services and running applications. This area may contain icons for the volume control, keyboard layout indicator, network connections, lateral Windows panels, hours, etc. Subject to availability large quantity programs that install their icons in the notification area may become overloaded.
To free up space in the notification area, you can hide rarely used icons. To do this you need to check the box Hide unused icons(installed by default).
The notification area can be configured more finely using the button Tune. After clicking it, the notification icon settings window will open (Fig. 5.4).
Rice. 5.4. Notification area icon customization window
It displays all the icons in the notification area. To the right of each icon there is a link with which you can configure its status - Hide inactive, Hide or Display. For example, selecting for a specific status icon Hide means that it will be hidden regardless of whether the corresponding program or service is active.
On the tab Notification area You can enable or disable the display of system icons Volume, Watch And Net. For mobile computers there is a checkbox Nutrition.
Let's go to the tab Toolbars(Fig. 5.5). In addition to the standard Taskbars in the lower part Desktop V Windows Vista There are several built-in toolbars that can be placed on Taskbars or anywhere Desktop. To enable the display of a particular panel, you need to check the box next to its name. Here you can enable or disable the display of the Quick Launch panel.
Rice. 5.5. Toolbar Tab
Address. This panel is a regular address bar, but is located on Taskbars(Fig. 5.6). In the address window, you can enter the path to a folder on the disk or the address of a web page - a window will open Conductor with the specified folder or browser window in which the specified web page will begin loading. This is convenient because it eliminates the need to open windows Conductor And Internet programs Explorer.
Rice. 5.6. Address panel
Windows Player Media. If this panel is activated, then when minimizing the program window Player Windows Media on Taskbars A small panel with player controls will appear (Fig. 5.7). You can control playback of multimedia files from Taskbars without maximizing the player window.
Rice. 5.7. Windows Media Player panel
Connections. On Taskbars this panel is called Links. If you right-click on the panel Links and in the menu that appears, execute the command Open folder, a window will open Links. There are no links yet, so the folder is empty.
Tablet PC - Input Panel. This panel is usually installed when using input tools implemented in tablets. personal computers.
Desktop. Clicking on this panel opens a list that displays all the items (icons) installed on Desktop. Using this panel you can access any icon Desktop without minimizing the window (Fig. 5.8).
Rice. 5.8. Panel and menu Desktop
Main menu triggered by pressing a button Start, has changed in the Windows Vista operating system, although it has much in common with the similar menu previous versions(Fig. 5.9). In the title Main menu The icon of the registered user is located. You can change it by clicking on it and selecting the item in the user account window that opens. Changing your drawing. In this window you are asked to select one of several standard pictures, as well as upload your own (for example, your photo).
Rice. 5.9. Main menu
On the left side Main menu There is a list of the most frequently used programs. The operating system itself keeps track of which applications you use most often and places their shortcuts on the left side Main menu.
On the right side Main menu there are links to system folders – Computer, Net, Music, Images, Documentation, Control Panel etc. Innovation Main menu in Vista is that the list installed applications (All programs) does not expand as submenus, but is built into the main menu. Programs and program groups are now organized into folders. To open the list installed programs, you need to click on the item All programs(Fig. 5.10). If you see, for example, a folder in the list of programs Standard, which means it contains several programs. To expand a folder, you need to click on it with the mouse button. To return to the list of pinned and most frequently launched programs, you must click on the button Back.
Rice. 5.10. All programs group revealed
Another difference Main menu Windows Vista is a possibility quick search the desired program. To do this, you need to enter its name executable file in field To start searching. The operating system will find specified file and display it in Main menu. All you have to do is click on it with your mouse. This method launching programs is convenient because it allows you to quickly find them: entering calc in the search field will take much less time than searching for a program Calculator V Main menu(Fig. 5.11). In some cases, you can specify several initial letters of the file name.
Rice. 5.11. Search result for Calculator program
Let's look at the settings Main menu. To do this, right-click on Taskbars and select the item in the drop-down menu Properties. The dialog box you've seen before will appear, except for the Start Menu(Fig. 5.12).
Rice. 5.12. Main Menu Settings Tab
Here you can choose a style Main menu. Two options are offered: the option that has already been discussed above, and classic style. The classic menu was in Windows 2000 and earlier versions (Fig. 5.13). Some users find the classic menu convenient.
Rice. 5.13. Classic Main Menu
In area Confidentiality checkboxes are located Store and display a list of recently opened files And Store and display a list of recently opened programs. If you clear these checkboxes, the operating system will not add Main menu shortcuts to frequently used programs and recently opened documents.
To the right of the main menu style switch are two buttons Tune. One of them is active - near the selected switch position. These buttons open dialog boxes, in which you can configure some parameters Main menu(Fig. 5.14).
Rice. 5.14. Start Menu Customization Dialog Box
In the window that appears, you can hide or show some elements Main menu. Here you can also configure other parameters, for example, when activating the function Highlight recently installed programs during installation new program the latter will be highlighted in the menu so you can quickly find it. You can enable the function Display as menu for some system folders. For example, if you enable this feature for the folder Control Panel, then all elements Control panels will not be displayed in a separate window, but as a nested menu, and to select an item, you will not have to open an extra window (Fig. 5.15).
Rice. 5.15. Group menu Control Panel
If you uncheck Large icons, icons of frequently used programs in Main menu will become significantly smaller.
You can allow or disable dragging objects into Main menu, use the context menu and sort programs by name (in alphabetical order). The last function is convenient because programs are often installed during work, and if you do not sort by name, it is difficult to find the application you need.
Default in Main menu nine frequently used programs are displayed. This figure can be changed in the area Start menu size.
In area Show in Start menu checkboxes are located Internet link And Email link mail. If the checkboxes are checked, at the top Main menu Internet browser and email client program shortcuts will always be displayed. The default is Internet Explorer And Windows Mail. If you install alternative programs, such as Opera and The Bat!, and register them in Windows as the default browser and mail client, links in Main menu they will be launched.
It is worth noting one more feature of working with shortcuts to frequently used programs. As new programs are launched, these shortcuts move through the list. If you haven't launched a program for a while, its shortcut will disappear from the list. To fix a shortcut in the list of frequently used programs, you need to right-click on it and execute the command in the context menu that appears Pin to Start Menu, and this shortcut will always be present in the list. Using the command Remove from this list You can remove a shortcut from the list of frequently used programs.
Thus, Main menu can be customized at your discretion. This important point, because it is with the help Main menu you will often launch programs and open system folders, and your work performance depends on it.
Sometimes it can take a few minutes to find where to turn on the bookmarks bar in some browsers. Let this one brief instructions will help users in this matter. After all, sometimes we need to quickly find a link to the desired website and quickly open it. Sometimes a lot depends on it. Below is how this is done in different browsers- from more popular to less common.
Google Chrome
Click the button Menu.
Select an item Bookmarks.
Check the box Show bookmarks bar:
Opera
Click the button Opera.
Go to menu Bookmarks.
Check the box Show panel:
Mozilla Firefox
Right-click on the empty field next to the tab title.
Check the box Bookmarks bar:
Yandex browser
Click the button Menu.
Go to menu Bookmarks.
Select Show bookmarks bar:
Internet Explorer 11
Right-click on the window title.
Check the box Favorites panel
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Customizing the Windows 7 toolbar
Hello, friends! I’m glad to see you again and in this lesson, I want to continue introducing you to the device and its tricks. And today we’ll talk about the toolbar, and in particular about the Quick Launch panel and language bar. We will learn how to customize and change everything to suit you, as well as how you can return the language bar if it suddenly disappeared from your desktop.
So let's get acquainted and understand what a toolbar is? As a rule, it is located at the bottom of the desktop and is a long panel, conventionally divided into three parts. In the lower left corner is the Start menu icon. It is an intermediary between programs and computer folders. Here you can easily open any folder or run a program. This menu opens simply by left-clicking on Windows icon or the Windows logo key.
The Start menu is used to perform the following tasks: launch programs; open most frequently used folders;
search for files, folders and programs;
setting up computer settings;
obtaining help on working with operating system Windows;
turning off the computer;
Logging off a user's Windows session or switching to another user's account;
The Start Menu is a pretty big topic, so we'll dedicate a separate lesson to it and cover it later.
In the meantime, let's continue our lesson. In the middle part of the taskbar there are buttons for all running ones. V this moment, programs and applications. Thanks to this, we can quickly switch between them. Just left-click on the program icon and it will open. You can run several programs and then just switch between them.
And finally - the notification area (sometimes called the tray). Here, first of all, there is a panel for switching the input language (language bar). Its presence allows you to control the keyboard layout. Here you will find a clock, an Internet connection indicator and the current speaker volume. If you click on the small triangle, the hidden icons area will open. In the very corner there is a button (Indicated by an arrow), which serves to quickly close all active windows, and pressing it again opens it again.
All three areas have their own settings. To open the settings menu, in the area of the start button, right-click and select the tab "Properties". A window will open "Taskbar and Start Menu Property", in which you can perform actions to configure and change the toolbar.
There are three tabs at the top. Taskbar, Start Menu, and Toolbars
. There are instructions at the bottom of the window, how to customize the taskbar. You can use it or read the article to the end (h then I advise you).
How to customize the taskbar?
Pin the taskbar
. By checking this box, you can fix the taskbar on the monitor screen in the place where it is currently located. In this case, it will be impossible to stretch, move or collapse. As a rule, this item is checked by default. If you want to increase the height of the taskbar (when located at the top or bottom of the screen) or its width (when located on the left or right of the screen), and also change the size of the notification area and toolbar, then uncheck this item and click the “Apply” button " and "OK". After this, you can perform all the operations described above by dragging the boundaries of the desired areas with the mouse.
Automatically hide the taskbar
. Activating this option will allow you to use the maximum desktop area when working, since the control panel will be hidden and will no longer be displayed on the screen on top of all windows. To open the panel in this mode, you need to move the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen along which it is located.
Use small icons . This parameter allows you to make program icons smaller and open applications located on the taskbar. In this way, you can expand the workspace and increase the number of displayed elements on the panel itself.
The position of the taskbar on the screen.
Allows you to select from the drop-down menu where the panel will be placed on the screen. You have four options: Bottom, Top, Right or Left.
Taskbar buttons.
At this point you can choose how icons will be displayed on the taskbar running programs and open windows:
Always group, hide labels
. This mode is activated by default and allows you to expand free space on the taskbar due to the fact that icons of similar open applications are grouped, and the icons themselves do not have labels of their names. For example, if you have several Explorer windows open at once, they will be grouped into one icon on the taskbar, which will be displayed as several rectangles superimposed on each other.
Group when taskbar is full.
Unlike the previous option, this mode is more informative for the user. All icons for open applications are located separately on the taskbar and are labeled with the names of the windows in which they are running. Icon grouping occurs only when the taskbar is full and there is no free space to accommodate new icons.
Do not group.
Grouping icons open source software does not happen under any circumstances.
In the middle of the Taskbar tab there is a Notification Area item, which is responsible for setting the display of system icons and icons background programs, as well as their messages in the notification area (tray).
The notification area is customizable. After pressing the button Settings, a window will open in front of you with a list of all background and system applications, next to which you can select their behavior in the tray from three available options: 
Below the general list of all icons there are items for Turning system icons on and off (Clock, Volume, Network, Power and Action Center, etc.), as well as Restoring default icon behavior. You can also enable the option Always show icons and notifications on the taskbar.
And finally, in the lower area of the tab we are considering, there is a setting for the Preview desktop using AeroPeek option. AeroPeek functions are not supported by all versions of Windows 7, but only starting with Home Premium. Activating this function allows you to quickly temporarily view the contents of the Desktop when you hover your mouse over the Minimize all windows button. In this case, open windows do not collapse, as happens when this button is clicked, but become transparent.
The next tab is “Start Menu”. Here are the options that are responsible for setting the parameters Windows systems. When you click on the "Customize" tab, you will see a huge number of settings. I won't describe everything. As I said above, we will look at this element in detail later.
And finally the “Toolbar” .
Initially, the system includes only a few standard toolbars: Address, Links, Tablet PC Input Panel and Desktop. But as new applications are installed, the list of these panels will expand.
You can also create your own toolbars yourself. To do this, right-click on an empty space on the Taskbar and in the context menu that opens, select Panels, and then the Create toolbar command.
Next, in the window that opens, you need to specify the folder whose elements the created panel should display.
Controlling the display of toolbars is carried out at an intuitive level. To do this, just uncheck or check the box next to desired panel and click the Apply button.
And one more nuance. Sometimes, due to some of your actions, the “language” switching icon disappears. In such cases, you should not panic, call someone for help, but try to solve the problem yourself. There are at least several ways to solve the problem.
The simplest one is on free space, in the toolbar area, right-click. In the menu that opens, select “Panels” and here find “Language panel”. Make sure there is a check mark against it. If it is not there, then install it. An icon should appear in the language bar. If this does not happen, do the following. Start menu ---> Control Panel ---> Regional and Language Options ---> Languages tab ---> More details ---> Advanced and uncheck the box next to Turn off additional text services. Everything should fall into place.
This is where we end this lesson. Of course, all the secrets of Windows7 do not end there and we will return to this topic more than once. Write whether the lesson was useful and whether everything is clear. If you have questions, ask. And in our next meeting, we will talk about difficult things - about correct removal programs and files from your computer. In order not to miss the release of an article, subscribe to my blog news. See you!