Tidying up the widescreen

I have been using a widescreen display on my notebook for a couple years now. I paired that with a 24” widescreen Dell LCD and  Samsung 4:3 I use as a secondary display. The Dell display is connected via HDMI and the Samsung display via plain ol’ VGA. The Kitchen PC, as well all know, is a Dell XPS One with a 20” widescreen display.

I switched to Windows 7 and started to adjust some thing to take advantage of the new layout. One big change was moving my taskbar to the far right side. It makes little sense to have a taskbar at the bottom when you have a wide display and moving it to the side clear out your y-axis nicely. I also auto-hide it as well, personal preference, and it’s on the right because my second display, the Samsung, is to the left. Otherwise your taskbar is in the “middle” of your viewing window.

I peg my gadgets to the left with an opacity of 40%. It’s great that in 7 you can have them anywhere but I tend to like a clean organized desktop with virtually no icons except Recycle and these see-through gadgets.

Speaking of, I just upgraded my Facebook gadget to one made by BuildAGadget.com. It’s miles ahead of this one and light years ahead of this.

What’s your desktop preference?