UltraMon Taskbar Funkiness
At work I use a nice dual monitor setup on a new computer running Windows Vista 64 bit. I had installed UltraMon but didn’t use the really nice taskbar feature it has, where you can have your taskbar span both monitors. Not only span, but span in a smart way. Applications on monitor 1 show up on the taskbar on monitor 1 and applications on monitor 2 show up on the taskbar on monitor 2. Anyways, I decided to use this feature today as I realized it could be super useful. After installing UltraMon however, I moved around my monitors and changed which one was the primary. Somehow this seemed to screw up the UltraMon taskbar because when I went to use it, I ended up having 2 taskbars stacked on top of each other on my primary monitor. So there I sat, with my windows taskbar at the bottom of my primary screen, another taskbar stacked on top of it and no taskbar on my secondary monitor. Not what I wanted.
A quick search came across this forum post at the Realtime Soft (makers of UltraMon) website. Seems other people are having the same issue yet no solution had been found. I was ready to give up. I tried uninstalling and re-installing and still no luck.
So sitting there, feeling defeated, I decided to right click on the second taskbar (that spare one on top of my windows taskbar), low and behold…we had some options! The one labeled “Add taskbar for” looked particulary interesting to me. Played around a little bit and was able to get the taskbar moved to the secondary monitor. Peace was mine once again. I was no longer defeated by a piece of software, a very good piece of software by the way.
Below are the steps to take if you ever find yourself with stacked taskbars using UltraMon:
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Right click the top task bar (the one created by UltraMon, above the standard task bar)
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Select “Add Taskbar for” -> “Monitor 2″
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Now you should have a second taskbar where you want it but still have that other annoying one above the standard windows one. Just right click the extra one and click Close. Then when it asks “Choose what you want to do:”, select “close only this taskbar”.
Thought I would share this just in case anyone has the same problem in the future.
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Awesome! You solved my problem – thanks!
Thanks, the steps fixed my problem. This is why I use Google for tech support (finds posts like this).
This was a great help,
Thanks!
Thanks for documenting this in a Google-able way. Helped save me some time.
As everybody said, thanks for posting this in a google-able way, I had the same issue and this fixed it with ease!
Thanks for for taking the time to publish this. I had the same experience.
Great tip, thanks. Quick and easy, found it right away in Google, and it worked like a charm.