On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 07:55:26 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

A suggestion: Move the taskbar from the bottom of the screen to the left
or right side. Not only does that make better use of screen real estate
on today's wide-screen monitors, but it also provides room for many more
shortcuts. I have 26 shortcuts there now (I use small task bar buttons
and my resolution is 1920 x 1080), and there's room for another 6 or 7.
It's not crowded nor hard to read.

To me, this is a combination of the task bar and quick launch bar and I
like it much better than having separate bars.

Regarding helpful hints in:
From: micky
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject: Search box versus Run box
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 20:35:06 -0400
Message-ID:

For the tutorial:
o Tutorial for setting up a well-organized consistent efficient Windows menu system
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/eWU-jOkFRtU/lkVU8yolBQAJ

A similar suggestion, particularly for dual screens, is to move the right
screen taskbar to the left (i.e., to the middle of the dueling screens) and
to move the left screen taskbar to the right (i.e., to the middle of the
two screens).
o left screen taskbar space taskbar right screen
Yes, I know you can eliminate one taskbar but having two has advantages.

Also, to get more space on your taskbar you can do a ton of stuff
o You can eliminate the search icon
o You can eliminate the notifications icon
o You can make the date/time area custom
etc.

In addition, you can set up your "Send To" menu to populate a menu folder
with all the shortcuts that get put onto your desktop, such that you can
add that folder to your taskbar as a winxp style accordion pull out menu.

Like this:
o https://i.postimg.cc/j5K0RL7H/taskbarmenu01.jpg