On the taskbar shortcut menu, click Show touch keyboard button.To hide or display the touch keyboard button On the taskbar shortcut menu, click Show Task View button.On the Taskbar tab of the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box, select the Use small taskbar buttons check box.Just because you can, doesn’t mean that you should. If you don’t intend to use the on-screen keyboard, you can remove the touch keyboard button from the notification area of the taskbar.If you don’t use Task view, or use a keyboard shortcut to access it, you can remove the Task View button from the taskbar.

Switch to “small taskbar buttons.” This change affects not only the size of the buttons, it also collapses the search interface from a rectangular input box to a button that you click to display the box, which provides significantly more space for buttons and toolbars.Other ways to fit more onto the taskbar include the following: Regardless of the taskbar location, you can change the height (when horizontal) or width (when vertical) to accommodate more buttons and toolbars. Small notification area icons move side by side.Buttons, icons, and taskbar toolbars rotate to a horizontal orientation, so you don’t have to turn your head sideways to read them.Clicking the search button expands the usual search pane. The search box changes to a search button.

Clicking the Start button expands the Start screen from that location.

The Start button is at the top of the vertical taskbar, and the Show Desktop button is at the bottom.

The width changes to accommodate the time and date, which are at the bottom of the vertical taskbar.

When you move the taskbar to the left or right side of the screen, it changes in the following ways: Wherever you position the taskbar, the Start screen expands from the Start button

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