Start button default setting?


  1. kr2
    Posts : 71
    Windows 7 & 64 bit, Home Premium, 2.80GHz AMDII
       #1

    Start button default setting?


    Hi,

    Some friends of mine have stressed out their Windows 7 to the extent of somehow sending the Start Button up to the top of the screen :-o Is there a simple and painless way of restoring their desktop display please?

    Thanks

    :)
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  2. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #2

    Do you mean the button alone is on the top or the whole taskbar. In any case, running sfc /scannow in elevated command prompt might fix it.
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  3. Posts : 8,398
    ultimate 64 sp1
       #3

    if you mean the whole taskbar is now at the top, then you can simply drag it back down again.

    right-click an empty bit of taskbar, make sure it isn't locked.

    then simply drag it down, grabbing it with the left-mouse button again on an empty bit of space.
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  4. kr2
    Posts : 71
    Windows 7 & 64 bit, Home Premium, 2.80GHz AMDII
    Thread Starter
       #4

    mickey megabyte said:
    if you mean the whole taskbar is now at the top, then you can simply drag it back down again.

    right-click an empty bit of taskbar, make sure it isn't locked.

    then simply drag it down, grabbing it with the left-mouse button again on an empty bit of space.

    Thanks and also to whs,

    That's probably it then - just drag it back - I doubt they locked it unless by happy (ie. unhappy) accident :-o

    Thanks again :)
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  5. kr2
    Posts : 71
    Windows 7 & 64 bit, Home Premium, 2.80GHz AMDII
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Task Bar: how to move it around?


    mickey megabyte said:
    if you mean the whole taskbar is now at the top, then you can simply drag it back down again.

    right-click an empty bit of taskbar, make sure it isn't locked.

    then simply drag it down, grabbing it with the left-mouse button again on an empty bit of space.
    Hi,

    Okay, the bottom task bar has placed itself to the right of the desktop, like a right hand margin. I can stretch it left to right but I cannot drag it around, I cannot mouse-drag it back down to the bottom of the screen.

    The tool bar is not locked.

    Please let me know how to enable the mouse-drag procedure?

    Many thanks ...



    UPDATE

    Just confirmed that the taskbar should drag if unlocked, and it doesn't.

    Solution: right-click taskbar > go to properties > navigate taskbar to top, right, left or bottom from the window which opens.
    Last edited by kr2; 10 Apr 2011 at 15:05. Reason: solution
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