Move the taskbar icons

Step by step

1. Click the Start button! Look at the bottom of this practice computer: the dark strip there is its taskbar. In the middle of it, click the Start button (four blue squares). The main menu opens just above it. If you see two taskbars, use the one inside this page.
2. Click "Settings". In the menu that opened, click the "Settings" tile (a square with a small picture and its name under it): the app opens in its own window.
3. Click "Personalization". In the column on the left of the Settings window (the list of categories), click "Personalization": its settings open on the right.
4. Open "Taskbar". On the page on the right, click the "Taskbar" row (a line with a small › arrow at its right end): a more detailed page opens.
5. Align the bar to the "Left". On the "Taskbar alignment" row, click the box at the right end of the row (a drop-down list): a list of choices opens. Click "Left" in that list. The icons of the taskbar move to the left, next to the Start button.
6. Put it back to "Center". On the "Taskbar alignment" row, click the box at the right end of the row (a drop-down list): a list of choices opens. Click "Center" in that list. The icons of the taskbar move back to the middle.
7. Close this window. You are done with this window, so close it: click the ✕ button at the top right corner of the "Settings" window (on its title bar, the strip at the top). The window disappears.

These steps are written for SafePC, a pretend Windows-style computer in your web browser. On your own computer, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.

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