{"id":13145,"date":"2017-06-27T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T17:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=13145"},"modified":"2018-02-03T10:13:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T15:13:46","slug":"how-to-make-more-room-on-your-windows-10-taskbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-make-more-room-on-your-windows-10-taskbar\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make More Room on Your Windows 10 Taskbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to Make More Room on Your Windows 10 Taskbar<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>This tip is for Windows 10 &#8212; all versions.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By default, Windows 10 shows a search box on your Taskbar, which takes up a lot of room for no really good reason, since you can search by opening the start menu and typing whatever you searching for without using a search box. Or you can, if you like, replace the big taskbar search box with a search icon and give yourself more taskbar space for your favorite shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Look below. Does your Windows 10 taskbar look like this?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/taskbar0.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 Tips and Tricks\" width=\"600\" height=\"42\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style760\">Do you want it to look like this?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style784\"><span class=\"auto-style785\"><span class=\"auto-style12\"><span class=\"auto-style760\"><span class=\"auto-style737\"><span class=\"auto-style9\"><span class=\"auto-style786\"><span class=\"auto-style7\"><span class=\"auto-style774\"><span class=\"auto-style15\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/taskbar01.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 tips and tricks\" width=\"599\" height=\"65\" \/><br \/>\n(Above: Showing the search icon instead of the space-hogging taskbar search on older versions of Windows 10.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/taskbar.png\" width=\"409\" height=\"59\" \/><br \/>\n(Above: Showing the search icon instead of the space-hogging taskbar search (Cortana) on Windows 10.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style760\">Then all you have to do is:<\/p>\n<p>On older versions of Windows 10:<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style760\">Right-click in the search box, choose Search &#8211;&gt;Show search icon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/taskbar2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 tips and tricks\" width=\"600\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (newer builds):<\/p>\n<p>Right-click in the taskbar search, click &#8220;Cortana&#8221;, then choose &#8220;Show Cortana icon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/cortana-icon2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows Tips\" width=\"577\" height=\"119\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style760\">You&#8217;ll have more room on your taskbar and if you want to search for something just click the search icon.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, if you choose to hide the search completely, that&#8217;s fine. Instead of choosing &#8220;Show search icon&#8221; you can choose &#8220;Hidden&#8221;. You&#8217;ll still be able to do searches with ease. \u00a0Just do your searches by opening the start menu &#8230; then just start typing whatever your searching for.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t forget&#8230; we&#8217;re looking for your favorite Windows tips and tricks &#8230; and your favorite freeware or Web sites.<\/h2>\n<p>Tell us your all-time favorite Windows tips and tricks. Or let us know what your favorite freeware or Web sites are. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/what-are-your-favorite-windows-tips-and-tricks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>You can submit your favorite by visiting this page.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Make More Room on Your Windows 10 Taskbar This tip is for Windows 10 &#8212; all versions. By default, Windows 10 shows a search box on your Taskbar, which takes up a lot of room for no really good reason, since you can search by opening the start menu and typing whatever you searching for without\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-make-more-room-on-your-windows-10-taskbar\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1684,1727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14427,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145\/revisions\/14427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}