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WOW! How did you make the taskbar buttons to be smaller than the taskbar? Could you please tell me, I have been wanting to do this for years but I could never do it.

I even made a thread about it a few days ago: http://www.sevenforums.com/customization/345988-change-height-taskbar-buttons.html#post2890251

Do u use any particular theme? i think this could be theme-dependent.

I just use a modified Windows 7 theme, but the taskbar buttons are the standard images. Did you just change the images to be shorter in the #1024.png found in aero.msstyles? Did you change the images from 40px in height to be shorter?

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Or did you actually change the height of the dimensions that Windows reads from the .png file?

Because I wanted to use the old XP or even Vista Taskbar buttons, but I can't stretch them to be 40px in height, because it will make them blurry when the taskbar is made shorter.
 

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I think it is theme-dependent. In this theme (Olive, a version of Luna) the buttons are smaller than the taskbar. I changed the height of fonts, their color and disabled smoothing (because ClearType does not work on taskbar). I think this did not affect the buttons' height.
 

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I think it is theme-dependent. In this theme (Olive, a version of Luna) the buttons are smaller than the taskbar. I changed the height of fonts, their color and disabled smoothing (because ClearType does not work on taskbar). I think this did not affect the buttons' height.

I know it is theme-dependent, obviously you needed to change the height of the taskbar buttons in the theme. I would like to do this in my theme too.

Do you know how you did it?

EDIT: Also, how did you remove the Show Desktop Button from the right hand bottom corner?
 

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I did not change the height, it was already in the theme. The theme is Olive, it is ported from WinXP. I only modifyed it slightly to fit my needs.

The show desktop is removed by the utility 7+ Taskbar tweaker. It has many other useful features as well, such as reducing the space between tray icons so to make it the same as under Win95-XP (this setting is available only via registry though), disable taskbar groupping, make standard conrtext menus for taskbar items etc.
 

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I did not change the height, it was already in the theme. The theme is Olive, it is ported from WinXP. I only modifyed it slightly to fit my needs.

The show desktop is removed by the utility 7+ Taskbar tweaker. It has many other useful features as well, such as reducing the space between tray icons so to make it the same as under Win95-XP (this setting is available only via registry though), disable taskbar groupping, make standard conrtext menus for taskbar items etc.

Is the theme publicly available for download?

Because I would like to see the theme, how the taskbar buttons are made slightly smaller than the taskbar.
 

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The unmodified variant is available from DeviantArt.
 

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The unmodified variant is available from DeviantArt.

Great, thanks! I'll try and find out how they made the smaller taskbar buttons.
 

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