Am I the only person in the world who puts their XP taskbar on the left side of my screen?<\/p>\n
I like that it gives me longer minimized tabs, so I can see what something is. I like having longer document windows, rather than wider ones. I just find it handy.<\/p>\n
And XP certainly supports it. You can lock the taskbar on any side of the screen, not just the bottom.<\/p>\n
Pretty much every application is sensitive to taskbar placement — at the bottom. Open up an appliction, and if the taskbar is too fat on the bottom, the ap will tend to shrink up from it so that it meets up.<\/p>\n
But not on the left. I don’t know how many applications I run that open up a window on the left border of the desktop — regardless of the placement of the taskbar. Which then means dragging the window to the right so I can see that the hell it’s all about.<\/p>\n
Okay, that’s enough idiosyncratic bitching for the nonce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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