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

    Windows 7 How Tos

    9 May 09 at 4:50 pm

  2. Thanks!

    JM

    27 Dec 09 at 2:13 am

  3. Thank you.

    Joey

    1 Feb 10 at 12:10 pm

  4. 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?

    Steve

    4 Mar 10 at 9:04 pm

  5. Thanks

    Rhyd

    14 Mar 10 at 3:46 pm

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