"Chris Morrison" <chris@private.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I would like to make my start button a couple of pixels wider, so it looks
> like the start button did on Windows 2000. I'm sure I read ages ago that
> there is a registry setting that can be tweaked to do this.
>
> I have been searching the Web without success, all I could find was a
> reference to HKCU/Control Panel/Window Metrics/MinWidth, however all I
> have managed to do so far is make the application buttons on my task bar
> about quarter of the width they should be.
>
> Does anyone know how to change the size of the start button?
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Chris
>
>

Anyone?

You could go for the entire Win 2000 look and use 'classic' mode.. it
improves performance too..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Chris Morrison" <chris@private.net> wrote in message
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> "Chris Morrison" <chris@private.net> wrote in message
> news:eyk6gKLBGHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to make my start button a couple of pixels wider, so it
>> looks like the start button did on Windows 2000. I'm sure I read ages ago
>> that there is a registry setting that can be tweaked to do this.
>>
>> I have been searching the Web without success, all I could find was a
>> reference to HKCU/Control Panel/Window Metrics/MinWidth, however all I
>> have managed to do so far is make the application buttons on my task bar
>> about quarter of the width they should be.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to change the size of the start button?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>
> Anyone?
>

"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" <mikehalll@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> You could go for the entire Win 2000 look and use 'classic' mode.. it
> improves performance too..
>
I have.

It has taken a lot of hacking to get rid of all traces of that vile blue
'Luna' theme, this smaller start button is just bugging the hell out of me.

Chris