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I've literally spent over 30 minutes on a support call with someone who had accidentally moved and resized their taskbar. All I could get out of the user was "
by magicalhippo 3y ago
I've literally spent over 30 minutes on a support call with someone who had accidentally moved and resized their taskbar.
All I could get out of the user was "half the screen is grey".
I quickly figured out it was probably the taskbar, and I tried asking if it was the top or bottom half, or left or right. "Half" was the reply...
After a lot of attempts and little progress, I made a breakthrough by asking in which corner the clock was. "Bottom left", aha! And with that I managed to guide the user to dragging the taskbar back and resizing it properly.
Granted this was back in Windows 98 where the taskbar wasn't locked, so was rather easy to do, it was probably their first PC and they were non-native so language barrier.
- nottorp 3y agoAre you the original? This story is very old :)
- magicalhippo 3y agoHah, not quite that bad :P
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoEvery time I go to click "Lock the Taskbar" a Clash song boogies into my head. Such an earworm! I believe they've finally renamed that option, though.
- defrost 3y agoIt's Lock El Taskbar now .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Sg9H2T_TQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Sg9H2T_TQ https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/arts/music/shock-the-casbah-rock-the-french-and-vice-versa.html https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/arts/music/shock-the-casb...