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Make Windows 7 Taskbar Smaller

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Windows 7 ships with a cool new taskbar (dubbed Superbar) that has big icons, among other things. If you find the Windows 7 taskbar quite big, you can easily reduce its size by making the taskbar icons smaller.

How to reduce the size of the Windows 7 Taskbar or make it smaller?

Right click on any empty area in the Windows 7 Taskbar and choose Properties

Make Windows 7 Taskbar Smaller

Under the Taskbar tab, check the option Use small icons. Click Apply, OK.

Reduce the size of Windows 7 Taskbar or make it smaller

You’re done. The Windows 7 taskbar is now smaller, as you can see below.

Small Windows 7 Taskbar

You now have  more area to view other things in your screen, since the size of the Windows 7 Taskbar is much reduced.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 5th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

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    [...] Make Windows 7 Taskbar Smaller like XP’s [...]

  • JM

    Thanks!

  • Joey

    Thank you.

  • Steve

    Thanks.

    If only Lenovo supplied smaller icons for their toolbox software. Doing with out those even though I thought were handy as smaller icons look better.

    Any way to reduce desktop icons size?

  • Rhyd

    Thanks

  • 333

    Its still not small. Its at least twice the size of my Vista taskbar. This didn’t solve the problem.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1550024123 Jay-ar Costanilla

    how to make even more smaller?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1424953597 Cam Cook

     It’s easier to just click “Auto-hide the taskbar”