LOL been there, done that..

RTS

"Mart" wrote in message
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You're welcome Rocky - just don't go down the Alzheimer's route, a little
to
close for comfort.

There was a news feature on the TV recently regarding Dementia and
Alzheimer's Disease and they showed a 'patient' being interviewed by a
'doctor'. The very first question asked was could he remember today's
date? - I failed miserably!

Mart


"RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message
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Tks, Mart

Action taken, )

like I said the last time this happened was a longggg time ago.
I most likely did that back then, but I've been through at least 3
hard
drives since then and a full reinstall.. ;o)

Just getting to old to remember all these little things.
dread the day I switch to windows 7.
(my learning curve days are getting longer and longer..) LOL

RTS

"Mart" wrote in message
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Having restored the taskbar to your favourite position (normally along
the
bottom of the screen) and suitably resized it, if you then right-click
on
the bar and select Properties \ Advanced, you will see in the 'Start
Menu
and Task Bar' scroll-box the option to uncheck 'Enable moving and
resizing'
under the Task Bar section.

This will lock the taskbar and prevent your wife from moving it again.

Mart



"RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message
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Thanks Shane, that makes sense, the wife is always dragging the
mouse
pointer around the screen..
No rush on the repair trick, the restore did the job. But it would
be
nice
to know WHEN she does it again. LOL

RTS

"Shane" wrote in message
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All you've gotta do is accidentally jerk the mouse - like the
forerunner
of
'Mouse Gestures' - while holding the left button down when the
cursor
is
on
the taskbar. As for getting it back, I remember it seeming
annoyingly
difficult at first, but turning out to be simplicity itself the
moment
you
stoptrying to figure it out! - on the same lines as getting the
Quick
Launch
bar back on the left. If I weren't in the process of setting up the
latest
Windows 7 build, I'd fire up the Me VM and reacquaint myself with
that
one;
but I don't have VPC installed yet (and am busy trying to correct
Windows
Mail and Windows Live Mail, both of which appear to have corrupted
message
databases and neither of which seem to want to let me delete them
and
start
again!).

Shane

"RockyTSquirrel" wrote in message
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I saw this happen once before but it was a longgg time ago,
So could someone explain to me what it was that my wife did that
would
cause
the icon bar at the bottom of the windows screen to move to the
right
side
of the same screen top to bottom..
It could only be moved to a half screen square, not back to the
bottom
as
normal..

I did a restore to the day before and everything is now back to
normal,
But I'd still like to know just what it was she did to cause the
change
..

Thanks,
RTS