Left click and hold an empty spot of the taskbar and drag it to the bottom
of the screen.
The taskbar has several "components", The System Tray (aka The Notification
Area),
The Taskbar(displays buttons for running programs), and The Start Button.
When resizing the taskbar, you don't have fine control over its size, it
will snap to
sizes that are based on how many rows of icon buttons will be displayed.
If you open My Computer, you'll see an button on the taskbar for it, drag
the taskbar
to a smaller size, until it's just tall enough to show 1 button. vertically.
That's as small as it will go.

"matthewwheel" <matthewwheel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A69983B8-2AF4-4B39-82B3-D6A49BA4B5C7@microsoft.com...
> how did you move your bar back to the bottom? I have done this and cant
> get
> it back.
> Please help
>
> "Fr. Bob Winter" wrote:
>
>> I inadvertantly moved my taskbar to the side of the screen; when I moved
>> it
>> back to the bottom, the taskbar had doubled in width [top to bottom];
>> reducing the size with the little double arrow makes it disappear
>> altogether,
>> below the screen. I've tried deleting and replacing all shortcut
>> icons,showing and hiding the clock in the tray at the right, and nothing
>> seems to help. Anyone have any ideas?
>> --
>> Fr. Bob Winter

S. Taylor wrote:
> Left click and hold an empty spot of the taskbar and drag it to the bottom
> of the screen.
> The taskbar has several "components", The System Tray (aka The Notification
> Area),
> The Taskbar(displays buttons for running programs), and The Start Button.
> When resizing the taskbar, you don't have fine control over its size, it
> will snap to
> sizes that are based on how many rows of icon buttons will be displayed.
> If you open My Computer, you'll see an button on the taskbar for it, drag
> the taskbar
> to a smaller size, until it's just tall enough to show 1 button. vertically.
> That's as small as it will go.
>
> "matthewwheel" <matthewwheel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A69983B8-2AF4-4B39-82B3-D6A49BA4B5C7@microsoft.com...
>
>>how did you move your bar back to the bottom? I have done this and cant
>>get
>>it back.
>>Please help
>>
>>"Fr. Bob Winter" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I inadvertantly moved my taskbar to the side of the screen; when I moved
>>>it
>>>back to the bottom, the taskbar had doubled in width [top to bottom];
>>>reducing the size with the little double arrow makes it disappear
>>>altogether,
>>>below the screen. I've tried deleting and replacing all shortcut
>>>icons,showing and hiding the clock in the tray at the right, and nothing
>>>seems to help. Anyone have any ideas?
>>>--
>>>Fr. Bob Winter
>
>
> t
You can also right click an empty part of the task bar, uncheck "lock
the task bar" (above properties) put your curser on the task bar to
where you see an up and down arrow, while holding the left mouse button
move it up or down depending on your preferance, one bar will only show
time, two bars will show you time and day, three bars will show you time
day and date. Remember to go back and recheck "lock the task bar" or it
will move on you again. Tip, if you like three bars you cane auto hide
task bar in tastbar prperties and it will only pop up when you put your
cruser on the bottom of the screen pretty andy if you do alot of
applications aat one time.

Walt