In WinXP, the tabs which appear on the task bar upon opening pages appear only on the right half of the task bar(looking very congested) unlike win98 where the tabs cover the whole of the task bar. 2.Can something be done to spread the tabs to the whole of the task bar?? -

Right click on the takbar, untick the 'lock task bar' then observe to 2 little arrows just to the right move your mouse pointer over them and drag to the desired size. You might want to remove the 'quick launch' to extend it even more... right click on taskbar and highlight 'toolbars' and uncheck 'quick launch' Right click on takbar and retick 'lock taskbar' to lock it again. Windows XP SP2 - all updates AMD Athlon XP2000+ Gainward FX5700 Ultra/960 TV-DVI 128MB DDR Golden Sample Detonator 56.64 1 Gig DDR Ram PC2100 Case Fan 500 watt PSU A-Bit KX7-

Normally the tabs appear starting on the left side of the task bar and as you open more they gather to the right of the first one. I suspect that your quick launch bar is hogging up your task bar making everyting in the task bar assemble to it's right. If so then right click on the task bar and make sure there are no ticks next to "Lock the taskbar" so that it is unlocked. When unlocked you will find a divider or separator between the quick launch bar and the task bar. Wave your mouse over the separator until the cursor becomes double sided arrows and then left click and drag it to the left to the first icon in the quick launch bar. Naturally, if your quick launch bar contains, like 30 icons then that does not leave much room for your task bar. If the quick launch bar contain just three, as most that I have seen do (Show desktop, IE and OE) then you'll have lots of room for tasks. To go a step further...If you do have a large number of shortcuts in your quick launch bar that you want to keep but still want to make the task bar able to display more running applications then create a new Desktop folder and name it "Shortcuts". Move all (but the three icons noted above) to the shortcuts folder. Now, move the Shortcuts folder to My Documents or somewhere off of the desktop (out of the way). Right click on the Task bar, wave over Toolbars and select New Toolbar. In the popup dialog box that appears browse to that New "Shortcuts" folder you moved to My Documents and click Ok. It will then take up a lot of the real estate on your task bar. Just wave over it's left separator and then drag it all the way over to the right toward the System tray (Notification area) where it will then display the name "Shortcuts" with two Greater than sysmbols. When and if you want to access these shortcuts just click on the two greater than symbols to open it up. Hope this meets your needs, Bryan