Finding
room for IE 4's new Desktop Toolbars  (August 1998).iso/full/W98Comp/IFace/TB08.gif) The
Win 95 Task Bar is a fairly crowded place
already, and adding extra toolbars soon
fills it up. You can do a number of
things to relieve the problem. The first
is simply to resize the Task Bar
(click-drag on its upper edge). This will
give a 'double-decker' effect, with
separate, full-width areas for
application buttons and toolbars. You can
also set the Task Bar to Auto Hide mode
(right-click on the Task Bar, choose Properties,
then check Auto Hide). This
will make the Task Bar slide out of view,
only reappearing when you move the mouse
pointer near the bottom of the screen.
Alternatively, you can drag
a toolbar off the Task Bar altogether,
turning it into a floating desktop bar.
It can easily become covered by
applications here though, so a better
alternative is to dock it to one of the
screen's other edges.
Now the toolbar behaves like
the Task Bar, occupying screen space and
reducing the amount free for
applications. To solve
that problem, you can set your docked
toolbar to Auto Hide mode, just
like the Task bar (right-click on the
toolbar title and choose Auto Hide from
the pop-up menu). It will now slide out
of view when not needed, and slide back
when you move the mouse pointer to its
edge of the screen.
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