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[Metroid]

I like keeping it on the bottom of my screen, but I'm trying it out on the top right now. I'm pretty much just interested in what you guys do.

[MrWiggles]

I keep my dock on the right, and hidden. It allows me to get the max in term of horizontal  length, which I like and with it being hidden on the left, it doesn't eat up desktop space at all.

I generally rest my mouse point near the bottom of the screen for no real reason.

[Jackrabbit]

Bottom of the screen and hidden. Works rather well.

[Itnetlolor]

PC- Bottom
Mac- Top with dock on bottom.

[SolarShado]

Bottom, I've tried the auto-hide thing, but keep disabling it... Can't rightly remember why...

[Andir]

At the top... if you think about it, all your menus and everything are up top.  It's less mousing around.  I move my Windows work PC up top, my Linux home PCs I use Gnome and remove the bottom bar, putting my task list in the top bar.

[Cheeetar]

I keep mine at the top, hidden.

[Rilder]

Bottom, because I hate change.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Besides some early Macintosh machines at my school, my first GUI was GEOS. Thus, for me, pull-down menus ought to be at the top of the window/screen. Thus, I also place the taskbar at the top of the screen.

However, that is not completely without problems, as many amateur titles (and also DF in windowed mode) default to a position that places their title bar behind the taskbar and thus inaccessible (gets resolved when you have resizable windows as any click at the frame will correct the position).

Still, it seems that top task bars are a frequent victim of negligent programming (T_T)

Deathworks

[SolarShado]

I'm kinda surprised that there isn't some code in windows to handle that case... IMNSHO that's the job of the window manager to fix... i wouldn't think it'd be hard...

Wait, no, i'm not surprised at all... this is the same company that's overhauled the UI for office for no discernible reason... as long as they don't try to slap a "ribbon" onto notepad...

I should take some of that back, I do rather like Win7.

I should really go to bed... sleep deprivation does odd things to your mind...

[ein]

I keep mine on the right, both on my Mac and my new Windows machine.
Hidden, icons as small as possible.

[Metroid]

Wait, no, i'm not surprised at all... this is the same company that's overhauled the UI for office for no discernible reason... as long as they don't try to slap a "ribbon" onto notepad...

I hated this at first (especially because I'm on a netbook and it takes up almost a fourth of my screen >_>) but now I kind of like it because it has made some things easier to access.
I also hate how they made me use Windows 7 Starter just because I have a netbook. I'm pondering whether I should pay the $80 to move up...Starter seems to work well for me and the only real advantage to a better Windows 7 would be the ability to change my desktop. I have so many wallpapers I want to use

[Duke 2.0]

 On the bottom, unhidden. That comforting little bar of stability will always be there. Will always stand by you when everybody else and every other program has gone awry. It will never bug out on you, never crash on you, never leave you...

 I... I love you taskbar.

[alway]

On the bottom, unhidden. That comforting little bar of stability will always be there. Will always stand by you when everybody else and every other program has gone awry. It will never bug out on you, never crash on you, never leave you...

 I... I love you taskbar.

I've had mine leave me before... but that was because I accidentally hit end task on the explorer.exe process.

[qwertyuiopas]

Killing off explorer is a useful action, if you know what you are doing. Especially if you know how to restart it(start explorer.exe, however you want).