Solved Buttons on Taskbar stretch to fill entire Taskbar

Charles Darwin

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So i used IOBit Advanced System Care 5 to tweak some settings and apparently I messed something up lol I have reset them to default but it still does the same I have restarted several times, I haven't tried a system restore yet as that sometimes can cause problems beyond what it's worth, but I am willing to do it if it will help!

As you can see from the picture, when I have a single window open the button in the taskbar is stretched to fill the entire taskbar, if I open 2 they each take up 50% of the task bar and so on. I would like to return to normal sized buttons but I have no idea how to go about that!

Thanks in advanced if anyone can help, and PS I hope this isn't a repeat question I used the search function but the only threads I could seem to find were about stretching the taskbar across multiple monitors which is not what this is abut. so sorry for that if this is a common question
 

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Welcome aboard, Charles Darwin :D Nice name :p

Advanced System Care 5 makes such a mess is reported earlier, too . First what I am to say you that windows 7 does not need any advanced system care at all . All these programs are not enough able to care windows 7 system. The inbuilt disk cleanup utility and CCleaner is enough for the OS.

Now let us discuss about the fix. If some registry backups are made by Advanced System Care 5 , restore those backups first.

If not fixed yet, follow http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html .

Another idea to fix it may be by applying the http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html to an earlier date than occurrence of that mess.

If still not fixed, try http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/21233-taskbar-change-icon-button-width-size.html .

At the last point, you can always perform a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html , when no other fixes are working.

Please post back with results :)
 

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YAY! It was the "How to Change the Windows 7 Taskbar Icon Width Size" that fixed it! thanks! somehow it got changed to 0 so I assume that means infinite in windows language and thus it went across the entire screen.
 

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YAY! It was the "How to Change the Windows 7 Taskbar Icon Width Size" that fixed it! thanks! somehow it got changed to 0 so I assume that means infinite in windows language and thus it went across the entire screen.
You are welcome :D

Now uninstall the Advanced System Care thing ! For your system, it is nothing but a trouble maker.
 

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Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz
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Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B85M-D3H
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Corsair Vengence 4GB x2 (8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz)
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2047MB GeForce GTS 450 (ZOTAC International)
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Onboard (Realtek High Definition Audio)
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