Windows 10: Changes of Taskbar height – each step too large

Hello:I have True Launch Bar menus in my taskbar, three rows mentioning the app only if it should be relevant to my Taskbar problem. See attachments for how much extra space there is below the third row. Now, if I shorten the taskbar one step, I get two rows see other attachment, but enough space below the bottom row to accommodate a third row one would think. And, the row change has nothing to do with the Notification area icons.I think the two attachments show how crude the taskbar height changes are. Is there any way of changing this?Thanks,Hans L

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Taskbar changes height when toolbars have icons set to "Large"

There has been an issue with the Windows taskbar which drives me crazy. It has been a problem since Windows XP and the "skinning" of the underlying user interface controls. It still persists in Windows 10.

When using a Toolbar on the Taskbar and the icon size is set to "small", the clickable targets are smaller than the vertical height of the taskbar. No problem, right? Either make the taskbar icon set to "small" as well and the clickable target area matches.

But what if I like the large buttons to click on? Setting the Toolbar (not taskbar!) icons to Large causes the taskbar vertical height to increase. This is fine for the Toolbar, but the application icons in the Taskbar now have an unclickable space beneath
them. See image below (not my image... found online when trying to find a solution to this.)





This doesn't happen in Windows 7 when using the "Windows Classic" scheme... so the problem must derive from the Aero skinning of the taskbar.

To recreate:

• Right click on the taskbar and Unlock it.
• Ensure taskbar is set to "large icons" mode from Taskbar properties dialog box.
• Right click an empty area of the taskbar and create a new Toolbar.
• Right click on the label of the toolbar and choose View > Large Icons

This wouldn't necessarily be an issue if the clickable region of the Application Icons was the full vertical height of the visible taskbar. It also wouldn't be an issue if the Toolbar "Large Icons" setting didn't have icons bigger than the Application Icons.

If there is a registry hack or other solution PLEASE let me know! I have had this problem with Toolbars since Windows XP, and the Toolbars are essential to my workflow.

Thanks!

 

Resizing taskbar

Hello israk_m_islam,

If you are wanting to change the height of the taskbar, the tutorial below can help show you step by step on how to do so.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/104233-change-height-width-size-taskbar-windows-10-a.html

In addition, you can use an option in the tutorial below to change the size of the icons on the taskbar to be small or large (default). Small icons will help reduce the height of the taskbar a bit more.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/25233-use-large-small-taskbar-buttons-windows-10-a.html

 

Taskbar changes height when toolbars have icons set to "Large"

This issue is pretty much the same but it was never resolved.

I have been searching for ages and can't find the solution to this problem. I recently remove all my pinned programs from my taskbar and am now using a quick launch toolbar instead.

This defaults to small icons but there is an option to select large too. The problem is, these icons have padding which makes the taskbar grow slightly when this option is enabled (This can be seen in the image below. The gap below
the taskbar window icons is how much it grew by). It makes my active window icons have a small gap below them that doesn't extend to the edge of the screen and it has resulted in me clicking the blank space when trying to switch windows, which accomplishes
nothing.





Is there a registry value I can change to lower this height or remove the padding around the "Large Icons" setting for toolbar icons. I think that padding is the root of the problem here.