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.

The border you’ll click on will be invisible.

Resizing the taskbar is now pretty much like any other window, except that:

If you want to make a change, make sure it’s unchecked.

If it’s checked, your taskbar is locked and you will not be able to resize or move it. Since it can happen by accident, Windows includes the ability to lock the taskbar. Sometimes people are even surprised when that happens by accident. And as a window, you can resize or even move it. Most folks don’t realize it’s really a special window, of sorts. That “strip”, as you call it, is the Windows taskbar.

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