Windows 10: Reduce Desktop Display Width

I have an extra wide monitor so watching videos in widescreen does not take up all of the screen. The issue I have is that the left 1-1/4" of my 31" wide screen is real blurry (maybe from screen cleaner?). When I right click OR left click on Start I have to make my selections pretty much based on memory of whats where unless the title extends more than 1-1/4".


Is there a way to reduce the visible width of the Windows desktop so that everything moves to the right of the blurry area?

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How to reduce width of the taskbar buttons?


Hello,

This is in reference to this tutorial.

What I want to do is to reduce the width of the taskbar buttons even further...that is, even shorter width than what's shown as size 38 in that tutorial. I want the buttons in my taskbar to show their respective icons along with only 3-4 characters of text.

I remember that I accomplished this in my previous Windows installation (Windows 7 (64-bit)), using the same method as discussed in that tutorial with some value (which I can't recall). But somehow, I can't seem to make it happen in Windows 10.

Some of the values I've tried are: 10, 52,54, 55, 58 and a few more.

Please suggest a suitable value/method to make it happen in my Windows 10.

 

How to reduce the width of Window 10 Taskbar buttons to display only the app icon followed by 3-4 characters of app title?

This is in reference to this tutorial on tenforums which explains how to reduce the width of the taskbar buttons.

I had followed the same tutorial in Windows 7 and was able to reduce the size of the taskbar buttons to appear like this:





As you can see, the taskbar buttons would display only the app icon followed by 2-4 characters of app title, followed by the three dots. That was it. This was the case even when the taskbar was almost empty (i.e., when it had only 1-2 app buttons to show).

But I'm unable to achieve the same result in Windows 10. Kindly suggest a solution.

 

Increase width of Show Desktop button in taskbar

For some reason the width of the "show desktop" button on the taskbar in win10 has been reduced to a stupid amount meaning it's very difficult to find and click it (I have 2 monitors so I can't just flick over to the bottom left corner).

How can I increase the width of the "show desktop" button the taskbar so a human can find it?