How to Move the Task Bar on a Computer Desktop

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Michael Burton with michaelburtonfilms.org located in Salt Lake City, Utah and we're here talking about Microsoft Windows, how to use Microsoft Windows. And now I want to talk to you about how to move the task bar around the desk top because a lot of people don't know that the task bar on the bottom, where the start menu is, can actually be moved to the right, left or top, thus creating a personalized, like a personalized, customized desk top. So I'm going to show you how to do that right now. Let me start off by saying that WindowsXP is a registered trademark of Microsoft and I am in no way affiliated with Microsoft. O.k., so the task bar is this bar right here along the bottom, o.k. It has all your quick launch button, right there. It has your start menu and it shows your current files that are open or your current programs that are running. The best way to do this is to right click on to your task bar itself. If you right click on the task bar itself it'll bring up these options. Here you can see that I have the task bar launched, currently. So if I come out here and I click on the left button and I try to drag it, see, it's not going anywhere. If I right click on this task bar, and I unlock the task bar, do you see this extra line right here that pops up and now I can make these two arrows? See that? See when I was on the lock, see, that's not there. I don't have that two arrow option. What that means is if you unlock the task bar, see you can actually take these two arrows and stretch your task bar,o.k. So you make it huge and you can just line up all these files, right here on the task bar. There have been times when I've had multiple, multiple Internet pages open at the same time. So many, that it starts to stack them and number them, but it can only do so many until it doesn't fit them all on there. And this is a good way that you could stretch your task bar and see a lot more of your work going on down here. I don't recommend it, I don't like it, but if you need to stretch it maybe even just a little bit, that's always fine. You can customize it any way you wish. Now once you're in this mode and you're unlocked from your task bar, You can left click and hold on your mouse on your task bar. You see how it highlighted? and then you can move your task bar. Move it over here to your right, drop it and release, see? So now you have your task bar on the right hand side of your screen. You can click on your start menu and it brings it out just the same as it would on the bottom, it just looks a little different. So I guess it's according to your preference of where you wish your task bar to be. Again, I can left click and hold and drag my task bar to the top, which will then give it this look, where our task bar is on top, all of our programs up here, all of our quick launch buttons over here, and then we have our start menu over here that would drop down as such. Again, one more time. I can click and hold, left button on the mouse, drag my task bar to the left. Now that I've done it to the left. Now if you notice, right here, when I put it on the left hand side, my recycle bin and all these files which would normally be on the left side of my desk top have now shifted over and that has become the new left side of my desk top. And then you're able to view all your programs stacked on top of each other like this down the left hand side. That one I actually like better. It's actually very handy. But I usually just tend to keep it down here on the bottom. I think that's the best. And then of course, I just always keep it locked, just for the heck of it."