Windows 10: Increase space between a set of taskbar icons?

Let's say I have 20 icons (small) equally spaced within the taskbar and that the last three on the right end all have to do with turning the computer on/off/sleep. I'd like to be able to put in a space or two that will separate these last three from the other 17 icons on the taskbar.

:)

 

Windows 10 build 14393

I have just had both my PCs upgraded to build 14393 with different results. My desktop is operating well and I like the update to the Start menu.

My laptop on the other hand is causing me problems. The Start menu is permanently open and is full screen, I can find no settings to change it back so that it expands only when I click on the Start button.

Certain applications (eg Edge, Firefox) have lost the minmise/maximise buttons.

The Taskbar has changed in that the spacing between icons has increased so that fewer icons fit on it. The notification area in particular as it is now only one icon wide rather than two previously so that it takes up about a third of the whole Taskbar further
limiting space for application icons.

In Windows Explorer the spacing between lines has got bigger

Finally, is there any way of removing Cortana from the Taskbar as right clicking doe not bring up the option to unpin.

Any help with these problems would be appreciated

 

Taskbar settings

There are two sizes for them, if you right-click the Taskbar and choose Taskbar Settings, you can switch between the small and normal size.

If that's not big enough, you can tell the system to increase the scale of the interface, but that will also enlarge some various other things like the scroll bars and X buttons.

 

You could put the desired shortcuts in a custom Toolbar.

 

Yeah, that will work, but it's not quite what I'm looking for. I want to have all my icons in one line on just one taskbar, with the selected three a space or two away from the rest. Something like this: a b c d e f ghi, and not a b c d e f g h i.

 

You can drag the custom icon group away from the others a bit.

 

If only it were that simple. With taskbar lock on off, the icons in question can be dragged (one at a time,) but they jump back into their original position at the end of the drag. I assume that I must be missing something???

 

Create a folder, named whatever, in your documents folder; create and place your desired shortcuts in that folder.
Then, right click on the Taskbar, choose Toolbars►New Toolbar..., navigate to the created folder and select;





unlock your Taskbar, drag the items by hovering on the divider until you see a double headed arrow then drag and drop to the desired location.
also check or uncheck to show text, title, small or large icons, then lock taskbar.

 

Edwin, I appreciate your hanging in there with me as a muddle through this exercise. I was able to make desktop shortcuts for Sleep, Restart and Shutdown from the following site: Shutdown - Restart shortcut Windows 10, how to create?. I then made the Documents/New Taskbar folder and place these desktop shortcuts into the folder. However, I'm quite certain I didn't do the next steps correctly. I then unlocked the taskbar and tried dragging the shortcuts from the folder into the taskbar. Only the Sleep stuck whereas the others didn't and the Sleep shortcut moved directly next to the last icon on the taskbar. Furthermore, with reference to your second image, when I right clicked on the taskbar, my dropdown started with Toolbars and not with View...thus had no opportunity to do Show Title or Show Text???

 

@flycaster:
Watch this video:

2016-04-29_1502 - Ficfel's library

 

Thanks. Will check it out tomorrow.

 

Hey Edwin, the video did the trick, thanks. I now have a beautifully efficient configured taskbar.

 

Good to hear! *Thumbs