Solved Taskbar's list of running programs squished

[chickenmatt5]

Kind of hard to explain in words, so here's some pics(attached). Is there any possible way to change the box sizes back to normal? This problem began a few months ago, and I really want to fix it.

 

[derekimo]

Are you sure you had it before?

I don't think it's available in Starter....

Windows 7 Starter- what are the limitations? - Microsoft Answers

 

[chickenmatt5]

I don't mean that I used to have the nice window preview that other Win7 versions have, I just meant that the box for the text used to be larger.

I was digging through some tweaks I used, and found one that could've caused this: W7 Taskbar Tweaker. On this forum, others seem to be having the same problem. I'll contact the tweak's creator and see if he can help.

 

[derekimo]

I don't mean that I used to have the nice window preview that other Win7 versions have, I just meant that the box for the text used to be larger.

I was digging through some tweaks I used, and found one that could've caused this: W7 Taskbar Tweaker. On this forum, others seem to be having the same problem. I'll contact the tweak's creator and see if he can help.

There you go, sounds like you solved your problem.

 

[Brink]

Hello Matt,

I'm not sure if it's a issue specific to that program, but you might see if setting a larger minimum and maximum taskbar thumbnail window size using the tutorial below may be able to help. If not, you can use the "Undo" REG files to undo any changes made using it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/81852-taskbar-thumbnail-previews-change-size.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[chickenmatt5]

Hello Matt,

I'm not sure if it's a issue specific to that program, but you might see if setting a larger minimum and maximum taskbar thumbnail window size using the tutorial below may be able to help. If not, you can use the "Undo" REG files to undo any changes made using it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/81852-taskbar-thumbnail-previews-change-size.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Neither did anything... Thanks, though. I just hope that the W7 Taskbar Tweaker creator still checks his Facebook.

 

[Curve]

Any luck with this problem? Did uninstalling 7 Taskbar Tweaker do the trick?

 

[chickenmatt5]

No, turns out that I had to delete some registry entries(or, a program had to, which W7 Taksbar Tweaker's author wrote for me.) I could send it to you, if you have any of the problems I mentioned.

 

[Curve]

No, turns out that I had to delete some registry entries(or, a program had to, which W7 Taksbar Tweaker's author wrote for me.)

I'm glad to hear that the problem is fixed! Was the issue initially caused by 7 Taskbar Tweaker?

 

[helium045]

help i am having the exact same issue that was caused by W7TaskbarTweaker. please post the fix.

 

[chickenmatt5]

No, turns out that I had to delete some registry entries(or, a program had to, which W7 Taksbar Tweaker's author wrote for me.)

I'm glad to hear that the problem is fixed! Was the issue initially caused by 7 Taskbar Tweaker?

Yes: a bug caused it to write faulty registry entries, which made my text boxes small.

help i am having the exact same issue that was caused by W7TaskbarTweaker. please post the fix.

You want instructions or a program?

 

[helium045]

the proper registry settings or instructions on which values to delete would be just fine please. thanks!

 

[chickenmatt5]

In the registry, go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband
and if you see any of these data values, delete them:
NumThumbnails
MinThumbSizePx
MaxThumbSizePx
TextHeightPx
TopMarginPx
LeftMarginPx
RightMarginPx
BottomMarginPx
ThumbSpacingXPx
ThumbSpacingYPx

 

[helium045]

thanks.

TopMarginPx was the value causing the smashed list. i changed the value to 10 hexadecimal and the list now appears to be like it was before.