Windows 7 thin taskbar

I've been researching for a few days with no luck. It's a mess, but vertical columns can be created if you make a folder, add it as a toolbar, smallsize the icons if you want to.

If you have a few, you can drag them to the right and then place them in vertical columns. Maybe someone more creative than me can make it look good, but at least there's possibly a way I moved a folder toolbar called fun to the bottom and opened it with small icons and text so I could see three common folders I need. I moved a folder toolbar called Technology to the bottom, and left the quicklaunch arrow there so it opens as you can see. If you use the Windows Classic theme and shrink the window title font down you can come pretty close.

Here is the final version. I opened up the taskbar far right so you could see all the elements, but normally it is very tight to the left. I am using two columns with one as a folder toolbar with transparent spacers for the right column, and a Launcher folder toolbar that is closed at the bottom where I can hit the arrow and open quickly to multiple folders, and the normal taskbar.

The next prob: If you lock the taskbar, the Launcher folder at the bottom opens up. But if you just auto hide it, or leave it unlocked, it stays the way you see it.

After computer restart, the Launcher folder toolbar I made lost its organization of headers and "" separators. Now after restart it stays, and I can lock the toolbar and it will remain. The multiple columns still remain as well which is great for my 23inch widescreen.

Of course, logging out reverts the changes, so you have to restart the service each time if you want the thin taskbar again. Search In. All Microsoft's PowerToys for Windows.

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