Why does Windows 7 System Tray do this?

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Using Windows 7 Home Premium 64... I find it boring and too samey to have the task bar in the usual place. I fancied a change, so I put it on the side and that is where I intend to keep it.

However... there tends to be a gap in the icons most of the time. Sometimes if I close Explorer.exe and I reboot it, it realigns the icons and closes the gap. Which is what I want. Sometimes it just does it anyway... but most of the time there's that evil gap there which doesn't want to fill in.

Any reason for this?

GapinSystemTray-1.png


There is a screeny. By the way, whilst I was reading a thread here, one done I noticed the gap in relation to this image on the taskbar had closed itself.

Thanks for any help.

FX
 
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It's a volume control panel... yes another. But I'm keeping it. Shouldn't Windows just scale so it fits at whatever position the bar is in?

Having a gap is a tad annoying sometimes.
 
How do you want it aligned?
That notification area is setup as 2x3 icons. You could choose to hide the ATi CCC tray icon then it will reduce to 2x2 icons if that's what you want?
 
I see what you mean an the moment you said 2x3 my head immediately "clicked".... on the other hand, why does it leave the gap there and why not put the highest icon on the left at the highest point, (currently ATI CCC) and then flatten the rest into a proper line. It's flat at the moment because I closed the other volume control panel, but I don't think I should have to do that. Anybody gettin what I mean by having the top most left icon scale higher and the bottom fill the gap?

:)
 
The ATI CCC IS at the highest point.

I don't get what you mean. You for some reason assume that 5 icons can be equally spaced in two columns, which they can't. Simple mathematics.
 
I'd rather not be spoken to like some thick ****... take another look mate because you clearly DON'T understand. ATI CCC is not at the highest point it's at a level point... now notice the gap. Now check this out...

Move the SB Volume Control right one, the Windows Volume control down to the bottom left, then the other slides over, etc etc, until your left with ATI CCC sitting there on it's own on the top left by itself. Then making it the highest point an thus not leaving any gap at the bottom.

Get it now?
 
I'll upload another picture in a moment with another program in the taskbar to give an example.
 
This is what I'm talking about... as another example... instead of running flat at the bottom the icons pile up. But if there are only 4 icons, they sit flat. So why with 6 does it not sit flat? Perhaps they didn't think about that happening or they didn't care.

StupidIconAlignmentinSysTray.png


Little things like that tend to irritate me a bit unless they are sorted. It's like "whyy... why oh why is it like that, stop leaving lil holes in my system tray" :)

:D
 
I don't like it at the bottom so I've moved it elsewhere, if you don't like my thread or you don't have any useful contribution then gtfo...

:)
 
UKFX said:
if you don't like my thread or you don't have any useful contribution then gtfo...
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And yet you want people to help you. Nice.

After doing some testing, reading, and investigating, it seems that it just "happens". Simple solution, set all icons to "notification only", have none showing.
 
UKFX said:
This is what I'm talking about... as another example... instead of running flat at the bottom the icons pile up. But if there are only 4 icons, they sit flat. So why with 6 does it not sit flat? Perhaps they didn't think about that happening or they didn't care.
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There's 7 icons not 6. The arrow to see other items in the system tray is an icon.
 
paradigm said:
And yet you want people to help you. Nice.

No I just want people to actually help but making silly comments... if that were to be the case I'd of not made this thread. Others are welcome, things like, "get linux" or "put your bar back" or "OD on heroin" are not needed. :)

After doing some testing, reading, and investigating, it seems that it just "happens". Simple solution, set all icons to "notification only", have none showing.
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Damn

Burnsy2023 said:
There's 7 icons not 6. The arrow to see other items in the system tray is an icon.
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I never considered the lil white arrow to be an icon really... but still it should then have the white arrow at the top with the others sitting flat. Guess it's just a lil error. Probably end up putting it back after a few weeks of annoyance... lil things like that I just wished wouldn't happen lol.

Thx
 
I set mine to never have the 'hide icon arrow' in place, I just disable anything that I don't want in the tsakbar

I leave mine in the normal place, handy at the bottom
 
Side-taskbars are for ginger people only ¬_¬ At the top is where it's at!

Anyways, I tried it on mine and don't have an issue, I think the icon in question is the culprit for your issue.

taskbarlayoutforgingers.jpg
 
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