To prevent this in the future, right click on an empty space on the task 
bar and select "lock task bar".

Tom Mayer

Russell Poffenberger wrote:
> Hi Emzirek,
>
> This is easy. Simply position the mouse over an empty spot on the task bar,
> left click and hold/drag down towards the bottom middle of the screen. You
> won't see anything at first, but when the mouse gets about half way there,
> the task bar will snap to the bottom of the screen. Then let go of the
> button. This works to move it to any of the 4 sides of the screen (right,
> left, top, bottom).
>
> Once you see how this works, you will see how it is not all that hard to
> accidentally move it between the different sides of the screen.
>
> Russ Poffenberger
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of em zirek
> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 8:07 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Taskbar is Vertically left, Not horizontal bottom-HELP
>
>
> I was at my PC(windowsXPSP2, several years old, custom built) when I moved
> the mouse a few minutes ago, the task bar went to the vertical position on
> the lefthand side of screen. I am not used to this and everything seems to
> be in order, so I am not complaining, but a little bit as the image/screen
> looks odd as it is. I don't know how to change it back to where I am used to
> it being, namely on the bottom of my screen. HELP?
>   This has the tendency to be able to widen to about half way across and
> then not all my desktop icons are visible. Please help me get my PC back to
> it's original state.
>   M
>
>
>    EMZIREK   
>
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>
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