Task now shows only icons on the bar, no words, in Vista Home Premium 64-bit

When I used to run a program it show up under the taskbar, between the quicklaunch & the system tray. It would be about a 1.5 inch rectangle which would include information on the program, or even what was the program. It would give status percentage of disks engraved, scroll the titles of the songs of songs that played in winamp, display the title Web pages, so I could see that the internet explore or firefox icon I had to click on. now I just get TINY little icons, barely larger than their counterparts of task of quicklaunch bar. They are much more difficult to click quickly or even know if they are right, it is so boring

I went through all the taskbar properties and options, windows areo off and I don't know what to do or even how to look for answers on this issue.

~ Ian

FOUND an answer how to change the width of bar app work thought after it for others

Regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics

The default data for MinWidth value is 160

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