Moving Systray

Are youse talkin bout the whole Windows taskbar, rather than the little area with the icons & clock (the systray)? If so, you should be able to just grab an empty part of the taskbar & drag it back down to the bottom of the desktop.

(Don't you love all these quirky little names? )

Hopefully someone who knows about such things will give you workable instructions. I, who know zilch about such things, had the same thing happen to me, and the bar refused to be dragged. I learned to live with it. Just this past week, the problem got solved. My computer froze as it periodically does. I could not even turn it off with the off button on the computer so I pulled the plug. After I put the plug back in, I got the starting boot up instructions, and when all was done, lo and behold, the task bar was back on the bottom. Everything else was as I had left it. If you have to resort to this, good luck.

Restarting Windows will resolve many quirky little things (pulling the plug is not the secret).

Windows XP includes a function to lock the taskbar, which some people do accidentally, & in Windows XP Home Edition it's locked by default.

If dragging the taskbar (after first attempting a restart) doesn't work for you Mustang, I can give you some instructions for fixing it though the registry.

Monger, yeh, I's talkin' bout that there gray bar that runs horizontally along the bottom. When receiving your answer, tried your solution. Just clicked, and dragged to the bottom--very quickly. Holy cow! The whole thing disappeared. Glanced at the bottom--there it was! BUT--only thing on it is 'Start.' When I left click on that button, nothing happens. I can open programs from my desktop icons, but not from the start button.

Flyboy, maybe I should take a page from your remedy and just unplug the whole thing. Nah--can't do that--it would mean this cold, impersonal machine has control over me. On the other hand, it already has!

Have you tried restarting Windows yet? That will likely fix your latest problem.

Monger, while posting my last comment, your second response came through. When it comes to anything having to do with 'Registry', all the warnings I've heard state if you don't know what you're doing--don't. As you can tell, I don't know what I'm doing.

Now--when trying to post this message, everything absolutely froze! I almost tried Flyboy's method, but went only as far as shutting off power to my computer. I restarted. After it went through it's blasted message to me that I didn't close Windows properly (how COULD I?), and did all its tricks, lo and behold, the systray was where it belonged on the bottom. Maybe because under my breath I threatened to take a hammer to it, my computer decided it better behave--until the next time!

Thanks all.

You're too quick for me, Monger. Yes, I restarted and hope it's resolved, at least for a little while until the next time!

Cheers, Mustang