Dear Brian, this fixed a problem I had where I had changed the SIZE of my
scroll bars--but I also changed the default size of headings coming back on
web pages. For example, at the top of this page the heading "Reply to "Re:
Change behavior..." is really huge. I caused this problem myself--but can't
remember how. It seems that I adjusted a "size" parameter. I was working in
Excel at the time, but must have changed it system-wide. Very annoying.
Your advice worked partly, but not for these headings. Thanks in advance,
jojo

"brianb" wrote:

> Go to your system properties in control panel or winkey+pause/break. Now go
> to the Advanced tab, click the Settings button in the Performance area. In
> the Visual Effects tab, scroll down the list and uncheck "Slide taskbar
> buttons". Hit Apply and OK. See if that takes care of the problem.
>
> "jl" wrote:
>
> > T. Waters:
> >
> > You actually responded to me (jl) and thanks. Dick mentioned locking the
> > taskbar and that has no effect. It is very possible that this behavior had
> > been set up by the prior user--I'm not really sure I can verify that as there
> > were a number of people who had to use the machine before I was actually able
> > to get my hands on it.
> >
> > The task icons do this very aggressive and noticable slide to the left when
> > tasks are closed in front of them and they re-size their width just after
> > this left-slide-bias routine. The effect is rather annoying when I'm busy
> > with a number of apps as it catches the eye and takes focus away from the
> > task at hand.
> >
> > Thanks to both of you for responding so quickly!
> >
> > jl
> >
> > "T. Waters" wrote:
> >
> > > Dick, what you are seeing is not default XP behavior.
> > > Are you using the settings from your former co-worker?
> > > And can you go into more detail? I cannot picture what is happening, only
> > > know that my XP behaves like your Win 2000 did with respect to taskbar
> > > buttons.
> > >
> > > Dick Mahar wrote:
> > > > "jl" <jl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:BDE5B98F-0017-48D0-B499-2F7B75262963@microsoft.com...
> > > > Just upgraded to an XP box that belonged to a fellow/former laid-off
> > > > co-worker. One thing that's not too good about this box is the
> > > > obnoxious way task bar icons slide all over the place when programs
> > > > are opened or closed. On my short-term-prior use Windows 2000 Pro
> > > > box, the icons used to simply and discretely widen or shrink in size
> > > > dependent on what was available. Despite search attempts, I can't
> > > > find a method to control/adjust for this.
> > > >
> > > > Do any of you know something?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > RIGHT-CLICK on an empty space on the Task Bar. Try locking the task
> > > > bar, see if that helps.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >