"Jeff Layman" <jmlayman@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Andy wrote:
>> Where's your taskbar located? Simple survey...?
>>
>> Top, bottom, left, right (T,B,L,R)?
>>
>> I'm trying out T at the moment. Haven't totally adjusted.
>>
>> You?
>>
>> Andy
>
> Top. Has been since NT4.
>
> I have never understood the taskbar defaulting to the bottom. If you are
> exchanging data between programmes, you have to keep going from top to
> bottom and back again. All progs have their menus, toolbars, buttons,
> whatever at the top. Why should the computer itself be any different?
> Only downside is lazy programming where a window or pop-up starts at 0,0
> thus being partially hidden beneath the taskbar. Not difficult to get
> round, but as MS give the option of the taskbar being at the top,
> programmers should take that into consideration.
Until this subject came up, I hadn't bothered to move it. Now, I'm putting
it on the left, because I prefer to keep it hidden, and I keep accidentally
bringing it back up. Heh.