Win7 taskbar, on the side or still on the bottom

[JimKiler]

Now that Win7 is here and a lot of us have 6:10 or 6:9 widescreen displays are people moving the taskbar? i saw a post online that someone suggested it since Win7 supports this better and I moved it. I like it so far. Anyone else going to convert?

 

[jiffylube1024]

I keep the taskbar on the bottom and a few gadgets on the right side of the screen. But with 16:9 especially it does make sense to move the taskbar to the side - I imagine that if that's how it was all along (the task bar on the left or right side) then we'd all be used to it by now. It's hard to change after so many years...

 

[JimKiler]

It was not hard to adjust, only half a day and i got used to it. Our minds want to move left to right already.

 

[Jaskalas]

Text reads left to right so its container should be horizontal, not vertical if that?s what you mean by on the side. I?ll keep my taskbar where it has always been, across the bottom of my screen.

 

[vtfanmv5]

I played with it on the side but the way it works on the side isn't working for me. Probably because I like to run with small icons, it just doesn't look right on the side.

 

[Scotteq]

At home I have a pair of larger, widescreen monitors, and found that (for me) the taskbar works best vertically placed, in the "center" of the two (rightmost on the left/main monitor). I also place the couple gadgets I use (Everest system monitoring one is especially nice) on the left side of the rightmost LCD. This puts all the system information I need in a single column in the center of the overall viewing area.

I set the taskbar to show small icons/combine when full, but widened it to around an inch and a half to better show the names of the programs I pinned to it. Contrary to the way I would abuse (XP and Vista's) Quick Launch I also pin only the programs I use most often, relying on the search bar to quickly locate anything else by name.


It took me a couple weeks to get used to... But now have changed my work computer to a similar arrangement. The only issue there is that the monitor my employer provides is much smaller, so I set the taskbar to auto hide when I'm not using it to maximize usable space for this particular spreadhseet~jockey.

What I like most about the current iteration is that the same program is always in the exact same place when I go to the taskbar - and you can arrange them as you like - rather than spawning in a new location each time depending on what order you open which. For example: My eMail client is *always* the 3rd icon from the top, whether it's running or not. When I want to check mail I don't have to look for it: Muscle memory takes over. On the older OSs, I always have to stop and look for where the thing ended up before I can select it.

Suggestions for the future: Would be nice to make the search dialogue box 'Pin~able' to the taskbar so users don't have to click the Windows globe to get to it. Yes, I know there are 3rd party apps that do this. I just think it's a very simple thing to provide. Also include the ability to swap the Windows globe from one end of the Taskbar to the other.

 

[JimKiler]

I like that idea with dual monitors, when you are on the monitor without the taskbar it is a minor annoyance to go back to the taskbar. I have two 4:3 monitors at work and that would be great.

And your right pinning means you always know where to go on the taskbar for an application that is pinned.

 

[TJCS]

I really liked the taskbar on the left side with autohide until... I realized that I have a hard time accessing new downloaded items without accidentally triggering the autohide.

I keep a clean desktop so everything is downloaded is placed on the left edge... disabling autohide will fix this issue but I don't like staring at the bar all day...lol