Terri218
Member
About a week ago when I turned my computer on the taskbar at the bottom got very high. It now shows the time on one line, day of week i.e Saturday on the middle line and 11/--/2019 on the bottom line and I can't widen that "cell" so that is why it is so high. I've tried dragging the date part to widen it with no luck. It stays in a cluster over 3 rows. It is taking up a lot of screen space. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
Thanks as always.
mikiem2
Moderator
It's apparently somewhat common, judging by all the Google search suggestions. You should be able to right-click the Taskbar, click "Lock the taskbar" to uncheck the box, and then resize it as you would a program's window. One source says you might have to deactivate any toolbars, and if you right-click the Taskbar & click Settings, there's also a switch to use small taskbar icons.
m.wikihow[.]com/Alter-the-Size-of-Your-Windows-Desktop-Taskbar
askleo[.]com/how-do-i-make-the-taskbar-smaller-or-larger/
howtogeek[.]com/forum/topic/taskbar-is-double-height-1
mikiem2
Moderator
I found one post where someone else complained about the somehow enlarged clock not letting them resize the taskbar, but it didn't show what if anything fixed it. You might try turning off the clock display entirely, then try resizing the taskbar, and then assuming you wanted to, turn the clock display back on. Right-click the taskbar, click Taskbar settings, then click Turn system icons on or off to turn the clock display off. There doesn't seem to be a way to alter the clock display itself, other than if you right click the clock, then click Adjust date/time, and then click date, time, & regional formatting, though if something's stuck changing something there *might* force a reset. Most of the posts I found wanted to increase the clock size, and T-Clock was often recommended. If you can't get the taskbar to normal size with win10's clock displayed, maybe using T-Clock instead would work?
addictivetips[.]com/windows-tips/customize-the-system-tray-clock-windows-10/
mikiem2
Moderator
I was still curious, & had some time to play around in a win10 VM. I recorded the registry changes when I increased [doubled] the taskbar height by dragging the top edge of the taskbar, & then again when I dragged the top edge back down. The clock display did change BTW, with more stacked rows when the height was doubled. The suspected registry value that changed was:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify]
"IconStreams"
There's also a value for past icon streams, but unfortunately it did not match the original IconStream value, and since the values are hex rather than text or regular numbers, I have no idea what they should be. Likewise, while the values in the VM at normal height were Very similar to my regular copy of win10, they were not an exact match.
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