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Center Icons Between Start and System Tray

Understand alignment when Windows taskbar controls occupy uneven space.

Quick answer

Understand alignment when Windows taskbar controls occupy uneven space. This walkthrough describes the practical sequence for the original TaskbarX project, rather than promising that every option works on every Windows release.

Steps for this task

  1. Show the Windows Start and notification areas.
  2. Review TaskbarX options for calculating center positions.
  3. Apply one centering mode and compare with your display midpoint.
  4. Test with different numbers of pinned apps.

How to confirm the result

The group remains centered according to the chosen usable-area calculation. For a positioning or animation change, inspect the taskbar before and after opening or closing a normal app window. For a startup or file problem, check the executable location and the Windows Task Scheduler entry.

Compatibility and recovery

The visual center of the full screen can differ from the available taskbar center.

TaskbarX is primarily a Windows 10 utility. If a feature is absent or unsupported, close TaskbarX, remove any unwanted scheduled launch task, and return to the normal Windows taskbar rather than installing undocumented patches.

Questions and answers

Related taskbar topics

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References

Primary references: developer product page, project README, and release history. Use your Windows build number to interpret compatibility claims.