Dragging Your Taskbar to the Top of Your Desktop

After the introduction of tabs in web browsers, I found myself getting a little lost at times navigating between tabs, my browser toolbar (located at the top) and my start menu, quick launch icons and open program tabs (located at the bottom).

I found an easy solution: Drag the taskbar to the top of the page.  Dragging the taskbar to the top keeps all of your tabs, menus, and links to open applications close together, making it quicker and easier to switch between programs, open new ones and to know what you already have open.  It takes a little getting used to at first but if you get past the first few hours of this change, you will find your computing becomes much more efficient.

In Linux Ubuntu, I eliminate the bottom task bar (the default is 2).  I add the open programs and switch between desktops features to the top taskbar.  This is particularly useful on my laptop to save screen space.  If you have a smaller screen, you may want to merge or shorten the names of your menus to save space.