# WTF happened to my toolbar?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-to-my-toolbar/189081>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-to-my-toolbar/189081 "2003-07-17T05:51:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-to-my-toolbar/189081/1 "2003-07-17T05:51:53Z")

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I had a nice toolbar…I loved it…it ran along the bottom of the screen. Then something went wrong, and it was on the right hand side of the screen, running vertical it was…as opposed to the nice little thing it had been, running horizontal along the bottom of my screen. I wish it would go back to normal. Can I fix it?

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**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-to-my-toolbar/189081/2 "2003-07-17T05:58:31Z")

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Windows 2000 or XP? The simplest solution may just be: Click on ‘empty space’ in the toolbar, drag it to where you want it, release.

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**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-to-my-toolbar/189081/3 "2003-07-17T06:01:48Z")

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Wow, that worked, I thought it was all complex. Thanks a zillion.

I’m one of those folks who can handle his way in a UNIX interface and do chmod hexidecimal crap, but can’t seem to get a Win2000 thing to function right. Darned object-oriented programming 😉 Anyways, thanks, I guess such a simple solution eluded me. That must explain how it happened w/o my really knowing how I did it.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-to-my-toolbar/189081/4 "2003-07-17T14:46:17Z")

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In the future you can click on START, then H, then input ‘taskbar’ in the search box & you should have instructions to do anything you want with it.

It’s amazing that Brutus could figure it out without even knowing what kind of computer or operating system you have. We should appoint him our resident mind reader.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-to-my-toolbar/189081/5 "2003-07-17T15:01:37Z")

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> \*Originally posted by RexDart \*  
> I’m one of those folks who can handle his way in a UNIX interface and do chmod hexidecimal crap, but can’t seem to get a Win2000 thing to function right. Darned object-oriented programming 😉

There **is** a good reason why “Object-Oriented Programming Systems” is acronymmed _OOPS_!! 😃