Start Button covering multiple rows of taskbar?

[amol]

Sometimes, I make my XP Taskbar two rows instead of one (especially while in portrait mode), but the fact that the Start button always takes only one row and leaves a huge empty space under it annoys me ... anything that can help me fix this?

 

[amol]

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[bsobel]

Mine is the same way, I've never found anything that changes it (at least nothing built in, dunno about skinning apps...)

 

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[sparkyclarky]

Somebody posted a rant about this in the arstechnica battlefield. Short answer - nothing can be done at this point in time. It's a UI oversight on Microsoft's part.