That sure sounds like what I´m looking for. I´ll try it out tonight and let you know.
pk
Member
ok :)
tpilot
Member
The mini-taskbar program doesn’t seem to work under WinXP SP2. It did work under Win2K, but Win2K´s taskbar never bothered me. <br /> <br />Oddly, it behaves differently under the XP Style and Windows Classic style buttons under XP SP2. With XP Style, it doesn’t seem to have any effect. With Windows Classic Style, it doesn’t resize the taskbar, but it does hide the sizing button and move the icons up, so the icons seem to have 0 pixels above and 6 pixels below instead of 3 above and 3 below. <br /> <br />OTOH, I’m slowly adjusting to the big taskbar, and it seems to be the only one that works well with 1st Clock Light (GreenParrotsSoftware) in 2-line mode, so I might just keep it. <br /> <br />I did find some other useful hints on the site, so thanks for the reference. <br />
taxifunk
Member
As you probably know, without having programs TSR for this normal xp allows for autohiding and moving bar around and fixing it whether autohiding or not. My normal bars are 4 in xp itself, on all edges of the screen one exists. They dont have to be at the edge either. AND YOUR NORMAL XP SP2 BAR DO NOT HAVE TO BE LONG RECTANGULAR HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL BARS AT ALL!! <br /> <br />Just unlock normal xp taskbar add new bar onto that and drag it off the first bar to an edge, then make it a square with 5 short rows of 5 icons each or so, then move that somewhere else in the middle of the screen, autohiding or not! And lock all bars, then. Often I prefer a very small beatnik clock skin to a bigger clock in the systray. But Beatnik also has to be resident (One day, we all just need better hardware, its getting affordable on install plans even without good ratings in some stores). <br /> <br />In opposite to some old public WB versions, the public version of objectbar by stardock was so good I made 4 taskbars of my own in different flavors I could switch too and skinned them jungle like in free skin studio program with clocks I made where I want em, icons where I want etc. New plus version is 20$ and seems awesome according to free 21 minute video I downloaded. Object bar does have to be resident though. Its minimum size does seem to correspond to xp classics systray icons (1 line of icons=small size). Hitch is, like wb, you cant apply windows themes to wb or objectbar, only make your own flavors yourself and then switch between them only. <br /> <br />Or make taskbar invisible with tweak window 1.5(not windows) by absolute way or actwinman 3.7 by actual tools com. <br /> <br />There are more tools like right click and virtual desktop to change clocks in the bar or position and size of taskbar. These also work on normal xp taskbars but do have to be resident. WB´s 64bit registered beta 4.6 works if using certain tricks, stable too, has to be resident again. My problem is when applying beatiful skins, a few pixels difference in button positioning means making complete new sets of numerous mouse macros again, so the mouse does not click the wrong place automatically. <br /> <br />You can download some skins for objectbars you made without skinning yourself. For applying different themes to xp SP2, I hacked using free U.K. theme patcher. First create restore point, that crashed 1ce or 2ce til everything was right, works fine now without WinStyle/MSStyle programs resident. One thing that calls for trouble is applying old plus! themes to xp SP2. <br />
