How do I lock right-aligned toolbars in Windows 7 without them looking awful

I like to create between 3 and 5 toolbars ( like the Quick launch toolbar) to house different sets of icons for daily use.

Games Office, Apps, Utils (stuff like that)

I like to right-align some of these so that all content is hidden and the chevrons (») appear. I then proceed to use each as a popup menu.

This works great, but as soon as I lock the toolbars, everything adjusts and looks horrible

Is there a way to account for this adjustment?

Solution 1:

Instead of changing your resolution, you can also hide the icons in your system tray and/or your clock, shift all of your toolbars to the right, lock, then re-show your icons/clock.

Solution 2:

As long as you don't reposition toolbars after they've been added you should be OK. As soon as you reposition one however, you're stuffed.

Try adding them with the taskbar already locked to avoid accidentally moving them.

Solution 3:

I had the same problem with the alignment of the toolbar next to another toolbar showing a little piece of the first icon in the list.

To get rid of it, open the folder where the shortcuts are stored, cut-paste them somewhere else. resize the toolbar, lock it and then copy the shortcuts back to the folder.