Home is where the mouse is...

In some apps with lots of toolbars, graphics for instance, you can move the toolbars to any location. This does not include the titlebar. I think if that could be moved around it would just confuse beginners, and I seldom use the red x to close a window. Usually just alt+F4.

Gary

rob3,
I did think about moving the taaskbar, but that alone isn't enough flexibility for what I was thinking, I'd like to get all the common controls towards the same place, preferable bottom left (for me anyway).

Gary,
I see your point about beginners, but they (usually) don't know alt-F4 so they are being punished with the defaults by having to go all the way from the start button in the bottom left to the close button top right. People who have used windows for years still do this. If everything was different to start with, being a beginner wouldn't be a problem
Or perhaps you have to unlock these 'advanced' settings, hidden where most beginners wouldn't know about.

The nearest I can get to what I want is to move the taskbar to the top of the screen and use the windows top left icon to select close etc... but I would rather be able to reconfigure it completely. Once you get used to it, manipulating windows by mouse would be much quicker than alt-f4 since the hand movements are less, and you can keep your left hand grabbing the snack food :)

weirddave said:

Menus are at the top of windows, various media players controls are at the bottom. When are we going to see the option to place them where we want? This could drastically reduce the amount of mouse movement required, I could keep my mouse down near bottom left most of the time. I'd only need to move it further to do editing/gaming.

Imagine the close/minimize/restore buttons located top right, were actually bottom left where (usually) the start button is. All the menus located just above or next to those buttons. I'd be able to control all my apps from a very small area of the screen.

Any thoughts?

Just a thought (don't laugh), but you could do mouse acceleration so you don't have to move the mouse as much to cover a large distance. I know what you mean tho, going from taskbar to title bar to task tray, etc, etc is a workout (not literally), you just want more of the controls in a more centralized location so that the mouse doesn't do much movement. Then again, that's where mouse acceleration may become useful.

Do you realize that you can also close a window in the preview on the taskbar icon. If you move the mouse over the preview thumb, the red x will appear. Doesn't need to be pinned.

Gary

^ Yep, he's right. The little red x is there even when Aero Basic is on.