Editing Taskbar (section)

=== Customization ===
The Windows taskbar can be modified by users in several ways. The position of the taskbar can be changed to appear on any edge of the primary display (except in [[Windows 11]], where the taskbar is permanently fixed at the bottom of the screen and cannot be moved to the top, left, or right side). Up to and including Windows Server 2008, the taskbar is constrained to single display, although third-party utilities such as [[UltraMon]] allow it to span multiple displays. When the taskbar is displayed vertically on versions of Windows prior to Windows Vista, the Start menu button will only display the text "Start" or translated equivalent if the taskbar is wide enough to show the full text.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030920-00/?p=42393
|title=When I dock my taskbar vertically, why does the word "Start" disappear?
|last=Chen
|first=Raymond
|author-link=Raymond Chen (Microsoft)
|date=September 20, 2003
|access-date=2008-04-20
|work=The Old New Thing
|publisher=[[Microsoft]]
}}</ref> However, the edge of the taskbar (in any position) can be dragged to control its height (width for a vertical taskbar); this is especially useful for a vertical taskbar to show window titles next to the window icons.

Users can resize the height (or width when displayed vertically) of the taskbar up to half of the display area. To avoid inadvertent resizing or repositioning of the taskbar, Windows XP and later lock the taskbar by default.<ref name="homedifferences">{{cite web
| url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457127.aspx
| title=Differences with Windows XP Home Edition
| date=November 3, 2005
| access-date=2008-04-20
| work=Windows XP Resource Kit
| publisher=[[Microsoft]]
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279774
|title=Cannot Move or Resize the Taskbar or Any Toolbars on the Taskbar (MSKB279774)
|date=January 25, 2006
|access-date=2008-04-20
|work=Knowledge Base
|publisher=[[Microsoft]]
}}</ref> When unlocked, "grips" are displayed next to the movable elements which allow grabbing with the mouse to move and size. These grips slightly decrease amount of available space in the taskbar.

The taskbar as a whole can be hidden until the mouse pointer is moved to the display edge, or has keyboard focus. The Windows 7+ taskbar does not allow pinning any arbitrary folder to the taskbar, it gets pinned instead to the jumplist of a pinned Explorer shortcut, however third party utilities such as [[Winaero]]'s Taskbar Pinner can be used to pin any type of shortcut to the taskbar.<ref>[http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.108 Taskbar Pinner]</ref>