I’ve had the following issue with the Taskbar in Windows XP: I like to move the Taskbar to the left side of my screen and make it wide enough to have three of the small icons side by side. But in some cases, when I restart, the Taskbar will be smaller than how I left it before I restarted. Okay, it turns out that the solution is actually pretty easy: you have to close the “Language” icon that is close to the end of the Taskbar. Presto. Everything works as it should. What that !?!$:J@#$? How is it possible that in XP SP3 that bug is still around? Maybe someone at Microsoft thinks that a magically resizing, LOCKED Taskbar is a feature.
Archive for October, 2009
Windows XP Taskbar Resizing Troubles
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009What is a Browser
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009This on the street interviewing done by Google is really interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
It is not really that surprising that some people don’t know what a browser is. It is surprising how few people interviewed knew. The sample was probably not large enough and diverse enough to be statistically meaningful. But it is interesting anecdotally. And it really confirms what we already suspect–that most people aren’t really interested in how things work as long as they do. Those of us who are interested in how things work gravitate toward technical fields such as software development. We know what a Browser is, not only because we work in the field, but also because we are curious about how things work. And we have a hard time understanding how other people don’t seem to have a drive to figure things out.