

Particularly on wide screens, you might prefer to have it on the left. We normally think of the taskbar being along the bottom of the screen, but it doesn’t have to be. Drag the mouse up, and the taskbar will, once your mouse reaches high enough, jump to double the size. Left-click the mouse and hold the mouse button down. This indicates that this is a resizeable window. Hover your mouse over the top edge of the taskbar, where the mouse pointer turns into a double arrow. To start, make sure your taskbar is unlocked.

Most folks don’t realize it’s really a special window, of sorts. Everything seems correct, all the elements seems equilbrated:įor his Toolbar, mIRC seems to uses his own toolbar's control, it's not a standard windows's toolbar.That “strip”, as you call it, is the Windows taskbar. Paint with "size of all items" set to 150%. Windows 8 and some others applications (like firefox) supports practically any kind of ratio (ex: 125%, 150%), why ? Because these applications/OS use for their graphical's elements standard's windows control (button, editbox, listbox, toolbar, etc. However, setting a ratio wich is different from 100% may causes some graphical's problems on many applications.

If you're not at "100%" (green circle in the picture), all items will be bigger and more easier to read. First, do you have set in Windows 8 a custom display wich allows to change the size of all items ? This following image show the Windows 8's "Change the size of all items" dialog box.
