Taskbar
This is fairly minor, in the scheme of things... but the taskbar of my office PC has to show what's running in the right order. Running from left to right, it has to show Outlook, then any browsers that're running, then any other programs - preferably ordered Word, Excel, Adobe (though it's not so important).

If Outlook or IE crashes - and both do with alarming frequency - the other programs have to be shut down to, and then reopened so that they're displayed in the right order on the taskbar. For them not to be in the right order is just... wrong.

The taskbar itself has to be at the top of the screen, and the display has to be in "windows Classic", with the colours of the titlebars altered a bit. If I get a new PC, my first task is always to update the layout of Windows.

*insert joke here*

EDIT: This only refers to the office PC. I have a mac at home, and the taskbar's on the bottom of the screen there.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 11:59, 11 replies)

oh god. this.
except the taskbar has to be at the bottom of the screen, you fucking freak.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 12:10, closed)

No! Taskbar at the top!
*Declares war on Blefuscu*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 12:19, closed)

bring it!!
and titlebars must be pink on the right fading across to blue. and ALWAYS windows classic.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 12:30, closed)

I agree about the fading titlebar colours.
For me, live windows' bars are navy blue on the left, fading to purple; inactive bars are grey on the left, fading to green.

I have no idea how this scheme took hold. I seem to remember that, one day, it was spontaneously adopted by my home PC in around 2003; I liked it, so kept it. I've no memory of selecting it for myself that first time.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 12:40, closed)

Taskbar at the top is the future
Why dont people understand this... it is far more logical for it to be there you dont read anything from the bottom up... It is a long running argument that I have with most people.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 13:34, closed)

This is why I like Sharp-E (replacement shell for Explorer).
You can click and drag to re-arrange the items on the taskbar to anywhere you like.
( Bob Todd whee, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 12:56, closed)

Ooooh - I like the sound of that.
I'd download it immediately, except that a new policy here means that we can't have admin rights on our PCs, and so can't download or upload software.

Boo.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 13:06, closed)

Oh God this!
With the exception that my office (burns with shame) is on Lotus Notes, so that's always the first up - followed by Firefox.

And in firefox the tabs are always webmail, facebook, b3ta, then whatever work happens to be ongoing.

And the taskbar lives at the bottom, you long-haired freak!
( barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 13:42, closed)

See my edit.
It has to be at the bottom on my home mac; it's only on Windows that it has to be at the top.

But having the Windows taskbar at the bottom is WRONG, you improbably-tall freak!
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:15, closed)

*launches campaign with t-shirts and mugs and stuff*

( barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:32, closed)

?
Your office uses Notes and Firefox? Those 2 decisions don't go together, at least in my humble experience. My office uses Notes and won't contemplate any other browser (even IE8 is suspect and IE7 never made it onto desktops). They also block Flash content and Facebook.
(Smale is stuffed, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:19, closed)

Muppet!
You can re-order icons on the taskbar. Try it!

You don't need to close them and re-open them.

Oh, unless you are running an older version of Windows!

TASKBAR AT THE TOP! WTF?
(SatchmoR No, mummy, don't put knitting needles in my ears!, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:18, closed)

Get Windows 7
Then they're always in the order you've pinned them in.
(WOGAN'S WIG FIXER, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:18, closed)

I'm stuck with XP.
*shakes fist at university*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:26, closed)

new laptops at work
came with Windows 7 and now I'm dealing with University IT people who say "yeah well, it's designed to work on XP... ummm..."

*shakes fist at university*

(and I even told them they could put XP on them if they wanted to)
(xanthine, Thu 8 Jul 2010, 10:18, closed)

taskbar shuffle is your friend, even available in a non-install version, for those devoid of the god like powers of admins.

nerdcave.webs.com/

Deligrams (fellow sufferer)
(Deligrams, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 16:08, closed)