Fence under Taskbar

I could not believe this happened!!

I have known of StarDock when I used OS/2 - several decades ago.

One of the features was the taskbar at the top, the same for the Atari before that.

So for every PC I owned, I always moved the taskbar to the top.

Now with a new Windows 11 PC insisting the taskbar goes on the bottom, I looked

for a way to fix this. So back to StarDock and Start11 - this works - the taskbar is now where it

belongs - on top !!

Then in an effort to make Windows look more like OS/2, I installed Fences6.

And the very first thing it did was to tuck two of the fences under the taskbar.

I had to use Start11 to move the taskbar down just to move the fence.

REALLY GUYS ?

The taskbar should be at the top, according to Raymond Chen in Sept 12, 2003

If you put the taskbar at the top of the screen, lots of windows end up sliding under it, because they assumed that the usable area of the screen began at (0,0). Other windows would “creep” up the screen because they used GetWindowPlacement to save their window position (which returns workspace coordinates, where (0,0) is the first usable pixel) but use SetWindowPos to restore it (which uses screen coordinates, where (0,0) is the upper left pixel of the primary monitor).

There were too many apps that kept sliding under the top-docked taskbar so we had to abandon that idea and move it to the bottom. It’s somewhat disheartening to observe that now, eight years later, apps still mess up their coordinate systems and keep sliding under a top-docked or left-docked taskbar.

Nigel Baker