A Little More Mac for your Taskbar
Step 1
Right click on your taskbar. Uncheck Lock Taskbar and check Toolbars > Desktop.
A copy of your desktop will appear, most likely smooshed over next to your system tray. Right now it gets cluttered, but soon it will be pretty!
Step 3
Hover over the edge of your taskbar until the sizing arrow appears. Then drag the taskbar up until it contains two layers of icons.
Step 4
Grab the handle on the desktop toolbar, and drag it up and over toward the Start button so that it layers on top of your task buttons.
Step 5
Right click on the word “Desktop” to open the options for this toolbar. Uncheck Show Text, Show Title and then make sure Show > Large Icons is selected.
And that’s it! It isn’t so perfect as a Mac toolbar, but its as close as Windows can come natively.
That would be very useful – if only the start button would scale up to the proportions. It’s difficult to hit it, when you can’t just slide your mouse to bottom left corner anymore.
Comment by Suur-wazoo — March 6, 2007 @ 8:27 am
And BTW, why don’t link the header image to the front page? Now I end up manually deleting the end of the url-string, because I want to read more of your stuff.;)
Comment by Suur-wazoo — March 6, 2007 @ 8:31 am
Ah ha! What I’ve been looking for?
Comment by Simon — March 9, 2008 @ 1:58 pm