help with the placing of my tool bar in windows vista

for some odd reason my tool bar (where i have the icons and where the progrmas i have open show up) is on top of my screen and i dont know how to move it to the bottom of the screen ideas any one?

 

Drag it to the bottom. Make sure the "lock toolbar" option is turned off (right click on it, properties). You can drag the start bar to the top, sides, or bottom of the screen. You can resize it from one bar to half the screen. You can make it "auto hide" (disappears when your mouse isn't on it) as well.

 

thanks but i have an other probelm the first and second parts of the bar, where is quick start, and where the icons of jdownlaoder, or the touchpad show up are all in plain sigth, how do i restore the little arrow that magnaged to hide most of the stuff?

 

Right click, Properties, choose the "Hide Inactive Icons" option.

 

Properties>Notification Area.......

 

it marked but the inactive icons still are showing up

 

If you are talking about the notification area:
Wait until they are inactive. They disappear.

If you are talking about the quick launch area:
Drag the bar over til only a few show, the rest will be placed in a drop down menu with a little white ">>" arrow.

 

i have a prioritary problem, somehow i switched the position of the screen, instead of it beaing at 90 degress its like the page of a book, how do i fix this?, in other words it rotated 90 degress to the left

 

The start bar? Or your whole screen?

Again, you can put the start bar anywhere you want, left side, right side, top, bottom, and it can be any width up to half the screen.

 

whole screen is on a vertical position, if you grab a sheet of paper and put it in an horizontal way that how my screen looked, now if you rotate it left is how my screen looks, is the ebst example i can put

 

Depending on what type of video card you have...

First right click on some empty space on your Desktop, then choose properties.
Then go to Settings.
Then click on Advanced.

From here, you can adjust some more advanced settings for your display. In mine I have the option to start the NVIDIA Control Panel. This gives me the option to Rotate my Display, either 90 degrees clockwise/counterclockwise, or 180 degrees. Or back to zero.


Word of advice. Stop playing with stuff that you don't understand. Or if you do, write down what you do and what the settings were before you apply changes.

 

i did not do it on purpose i pushed a little bit my laptop so i could connect my ds charger and when it went out of the rest mode the screen was like that, im sure it was due to a button combo, and the tool bar stuff was fault of my mom, since i let her borrow the comp so she can help me with transfering some recordings of some clases

there we go thanks tirith and loony, also i must add that i use an intel graphics chipset or so my pc tells me