I have a gray bar on the left side of my screen on my desk top that I cannot remove to get a full screen. Help.

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Try right clicking on a part of the task bar and checking that the "Lock Task Bar" is not ticked in the menu that appears, untick it if it is. It shouldn't be as you can drag it to the left or right of the screen. Then click "Properties" and check that the "auto-hide task bar" is not ticked. Again it shouldn't be but untick if it is.
In these circumstances you should be able to drag the task bar to all four sides of the screen and it should remain visible at all times. If it is still not showing at the bottom of your screen, I would suspect that your graphics card is setup to show a larger screen than the actual screen can display, and you need to right click somewhere on the desk top and look at "Screen Resolution" (win7) to see what the settings are and what you can change them to to try and bring the task bar back into view when it is on the bottom.
Do any of your programmes lose their lower parts when viewed full screen?
On today's wide screen profile machines, I often find it better to have the task bar on the side. It takes a little getting used to at first, but after a while I found it more natural than at the bottom.
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The picture or image you have chosen does not fit the screen. Go to your system preferences, Desktop &Screen Saver, click on the desktop tab and change the image to "fit the screen" or a variety of other options.

its asking you to adjust power on the main power box it sould be under power saver adjust level it to low it should be in your menue and then your main power setings.

Hi,
click on start button in key board press alt space in displayed options select move press down arrow key to move your task bar to down

hi, i have a broksonic model ccv-4500 , these is a monitor or tv because i cant founder the digital cable imput. thanks.

Hi, you can removed this bar by using the picture size function in you menu this is du to the signal
you receive in your tv;if your tv got a full hd signal
choose the 16:9 picture format the bar will disapear
if you dont have 16:9 signal that normal but you can choose full screen mode it should gone , that is 4:3
format extend it to ful screen mode.
good luck and have a nice day.

The "Touchpad is very sensitive; if you look while scrolling, the "scroll-bar" will turn (Blue), click on the ("scroll-bar"), until it turn "Gray." Note: "You ca use the Pointer Device / Touchpad without using the Scroll-bar, basically anywhere on the screen; ("bottom scroll-pad" = left to right"), and ("right -side edge scroll-pad = up & down").

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control settings
click never for standby
and remove check from hibernate

download antivirus:kaspersky or avira

install and scan your computer

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use the gray bar on top to move the screen to the upper left hand corner.  Then click and drag the bottom right portion of the screen to the size that you want it be.