Settings you may wish to change:
- I usually change the toolbar search to only show the search icon. This takes up way less space.
- Right-click on the search area
- Highlight “Search”
- Select “Show search icon”
- Alternatively, if you never plan on using search and you need the space, select “Hidden,” and the search icon will disappear – to get it back, do the opposite of the previous step
- Generally, I make the taskbar icons as small as possible. To do this:
- Right-click on an empty portion of the taskbar
- Select Taskbar Settings
- Find the item marked “show small taskbar buttons”
- Turn this on by sliding the button to the right, turning it blue
- If you want the desktop icons to be small as well:
- First, right-click on the desktop and select “View”
- Select “Small icons”
- Next, to make the icons even smaller
- Make sure your desktop is viewable
- With a mouse handy
- Click on the desktop
- hold down the Ctrl key
- Use the mouse scroll function to change the size of the desktop icons.