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Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 2 Feb 2025 20:02:15 -0500, Newyana2
<newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:

>On 2/2/2025 7:07 PM, micky wrote:
>> This is a win11 post but I included win10 so readers there will see what
>> they are in for if they switch to 11.  :-)
>> 
>> THE TASK BAR
>> So far, the biggest problem is the task bar.  it seems one cannot make
>> it more than one line high.   Is there any way around that?
>> 
>> I saw the 3 dots to look at more programs but they are so small. I know
>> it will lead to mistakes.
>>    
>> When the Task Bar was redesigned in win10 I didn't like it and preferred
>> the Quick Launch Bar, but I've gotten to like it.  I see there is a
>> complicated way to add the QL bar back, but that is only useful for
>> starting the program.  The win10 task bar let you see each of multiple
>> instances of the program, as with Chrome or Firefox, so you couuld click
>> on the one you wanted.   I used 7+ Taskbar TWeaker to ungroup them when
>> occasionally something would regroup them but 7+TT is not going to be
>> updated for win11.
>> 
>> STARTING WINDOWS WITHOUT A PASSWORD
>> There are lots of pages showing how to start windows without a password,
>> but they all say to use netplwiz, which they say will have a checkbox
>> "Require password" and to uncheck that box, but when I use netplwiz,
>> there is no such check box.  Is this method obsolete or is it me?  Is
>> there a method that works?
>> 
>
>First, install Exporer Patcher.
>https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases
>
>That seems to be a shell extension. It fixes the broken bits and
>provides a right-click menu. On that menu, select the taskbar
>setting near the top. I don;t remember which item selection to choose.
>Maybe the Windows 10 option. There are only 2 or 3 options,
>anyway.
>
>   There are also some other options, but they're optionsavailab
>elsewhere. Once you change the taskbar style you get the old
>context menu with "Toolbars". Now you can add back Quick Launch.
>
>   To fix the messed up size, you can now use this setting:

Is this intended just to make a one-line task bar bigger, or would it
let me have 2 or 3 lines within it.  That's what I most want. 

Or is this just meant to get back the QL bar? 
>
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\TaskbarSi
>
>dword
>0 minimum, 1 default, 2 large
>
>    But I think you need Explorer Patcher for it to work. I've also
>found Win11 pretty much like 10, except for the taskbar mess.

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WIN1  1One-line taskbar;   Starting wndwos without pasword micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-02 19:07 -0500
  Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-02 19:58 -0500
    Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-04 09:31 -0500
  Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-02 20:02 -0500
    Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-03 10:35 +0000
      Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-03 08:37 -0500
        Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-04 11:21 +0000
        Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-04 09:29 -0500
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