Improve productivity by moving your taskbar
April 11th
Daniel Pataki
Productivity
2 comments already, the latest by Adi, why not join the discussion?
Martin from gHacks usually writes great technical posts, but it seems he’s not bad at productivity at all. He wrote a post explaining why he keeps his Windows taskbar on the right side of the screen.
“Moving the taskbar to the side makes it possible to display additional windows before the Windows grouping feature kicks in”
Sure enough, he reports that you can minimize about 25 applications to the tray before they become totally unreadable, so if you work with a load of windows, this may be a breath of fresh air. This is great for widescreeners, since they have the screen real estate to do this anyway. While I despise having so many windows open, sometimes you just have to, so this is a great tip, although it does take some time to get used to.
Actually, one of the best changes I ever made to Windows is to move the taskbar to the TOP of the screen. This saves so much mousing around the screen. Most of the controls for programs–menus, controls, open/close/minimize–are all at the top of the screen. Why keep moving from the top to the bottom over and over again….
I guess moving to the top is a good tip rather than to the right. When the task bar is on the right the tabs become unreadable when they have really long names.