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The start up bar thng that goes along the bottom of the screen has decided it wants to be up the side now...I don't like...tell me how to change it back.

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ladytophamhatt · 24/04/2008 17:51

No idea how its got there but its really annoying me now.

Help me please you technically minded people.

Thanks

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Caz10 · 24/04/2008 17:54

you have to kind of grab it by clicking on it and pull it back down - sorry i can't remember where or if it's left or right click

can you tell i'm not one of the technically minded people?!

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Graciefer · 24/04/2008 18:01

Right click on the taskbar and make sure 'lock the taskbar' isn't ticked (since it has moved I guess it isnt.

Place the cursor over it and hold down the left mouse button and move it to you want it.

Then right click and tick the 'lock the taskbar' option, to stop it moving again.

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ladytophamhatt · 24/04/2008 19:45

Thats not working.
I've unlocked the taskbar, I think I must have locked it trying to sort it out before but it doesn't move when I click it again.....

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AitchTwoOhelicopterfraek · 24/04/2008 19:50

you're sure you can't drag it back?

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CoteDAzur · 24/04/2008 19:51

I just did it with mine and it works.

Press left mouse button, drag down, release. (Rather than clicking on it)

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EachPeachPearMum · 24/04/2008 19:51

You should be able to just drag and drop it at the bottom.
(you are in windows, no?)

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ladytophamhatt · 24/04/2008 20:28

Aha, its done it now...but now I have a really fat bar at the bottom.

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AitchTwoOhelicopterfraek · 24/04/2008 20:40

just squash it, you multiparous technophobe.

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Blu · 24/04/2008 20:53

I've got the same problem - DS somehow moved the whole panel vertically to the L of the screen instead of along the bottom.

I have been L clicking, and L click-and-dragging but I can't move it. Where should the little arrow be when I click-and-drag?

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Blu · 24/04/2008 20:54

lth - I just have a rally fat bottom

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Blu · 24/04/2008 20:57

help!

Don't leave me!

Is it because I is a mother of an only child?

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ladytophamhatt · 24/04/2008 21:06

tried squashing it...its resisting all attempts.

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ladytophamhatt · 24/04/2008 21:08

n true techophobe stylee I just kept click-and-dragging all over it until it worked Blu.



Its still fat though.

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Blu · 24/04/2008 21:09

They've abandoned us, LTH.

To squash it down, get the cursor right on the edge of the blue panelso that it turns into a little two-ended arrow, Then you can clicj-k-and-drag to squash it.

I made it move from up the side to along the bottom by clicking on the lighter blue bit rather than the darker blue bit.

Now my blue panel is still fatter thn it was, and everything looks different - all my little icons are in a chequerboard, rather than in a line next to each other.

Oh - to make it less fat - have you unlocked it again? You locked it, didn't you?

sigh.

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AitchTwoOhelicopterfraek · 24/04/2008 21:16

lol, you are making me laugh. you pair of plums. click and drag is my only suggestion... unless pushing will help where dragging has failed?

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ladytophamhatt · 24/04/2008 22:36

no...forgot to unlock it again but anyway its still bloody fat.

even when the little 2 ended arrows decides to show its stupid face, it won't do its job.

I 'll live with a fat bar thingamijig

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