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You can choose any of the four sides of the display from this menu. You can also resize the taskbar to get a little additional space. Then place your mouse at the top edge of the taskbar and drag to resize it just like you would with a window. You can increase the size of the taskbar up to about half your screen size. As you can see, almost everything is the same except that the icons are smaller and you can cram a few more into the space. As a result, only the clock is shown and not the date as well.

But you can always hover your mouse over the clock or click it to check the date. This saves a lot of taskbar space but can make it difficult for newer users to recognize icons. You can have Windows show text labels, but the downside is that you also lose the grouping of related icons. In Windows 10, the default color of the taskbar is black.

The Peek feature was introduced back with Windows 7 to let users quickly peek through all open applications to view the desktop. In previous versions, it was turned on by default. In Windows 10, you have to turn it on. With the Peek option turned on, you can move your mouse to the tiny sliver of space at the far right of the taskbar to hide all your windows and show you your desktop. When you move the mouse away, your windows return to their previous state.

You can also click this area to automatically minimize all your windows so that you can actually do things on the desktop. Click the area again to restore your windows. Windows also allows you to add toolbars to the taskbar. A toolbar is essentially a shortcut to a folder on your system, but the shortcut is displayed as the same kind of toolbar you might see in a browser or other app. Instead of expanding the Desktop toolbar to show any icons, I reduced its size and use the double arrow to open a pop-up menu with all the items.

You can also add a custom toolbar that points to any folder on your system. This can be a great way of adding quick, taskbar access to items you regularly need. You can have a taskbar shown on only one display, a single taskbar stretched across all displays and even a separate taskbar for each display that only shows the apps open on that display. All open windows for apps are shown on that taskbar, regardless of which display the windows are open on.

Turn that option on to have a taskbar shown on all your displays and also open up the other options below. The reason this option is here is so that you can have one option set for your primary display and a different option set for your other displays. For example, say you had three monitors.

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Showing results for. Show only Search instead for. To cycle through all the toolbar button properties without having to reopen the individual property windows, turn Auto Hide off so the Properties window stays stationary. You can also change the command IDs of the buttons on the new toolbar by using the Properties window. In Resource View expand the resource folder for example, Project1. Assign an ID to the blank button at the right end of the toolbar.

You can do so by editing the ID property in the Properties Window. For example, you may want to give a toolbar button the same ID as a menu option. In this case, use the drop-down list box to select the ID of the menu option. Select the blank button at the right end of the toolbar in the Toolbar View pane and begin drawing. In Resource View , open the toolbar by double-clicking it. If you open the image in Visual Studio, it will open in the Image Editor.

You can also open the image in other graphics programs. In the Toolbar View pane, drag the button that you want to move to its new location on the toolbar. To copy buttons from a toolbar, hold down the Ctrl key. In the Toolbar View pane, drag the button to its new location on the toolbar. Or, drag it to a location on another toolbar.

To insert or remove space between buttons on a toolbar, drag them either away from or towards each other on the toolbar. If there's no space on the side of the button that you're dragging away from and you drag the button more than halfway past the adjacent button, the Toolbar Editor inserts a space on the opposite side of the button that you're dragging.

For example, to see the tool tip for the Print button in WordPad :. Hover your mouse pointer over the Print toolbar button and notice the word Print now is floating under your mouse pointer.

Look at the status bar at the bottom of the WordPad window and notice that it now shows the text Prints the active document. Print is the tool tip name and Prints the active document is the description of the button for the status bar.