Taskbar in Vista update changed to scroll

After the execution of an update to Vista my bar tasks has changed so that I have to use up and down arrows to scroll to see my current tasks rather than display them in the taskbar.  It's very embarrassing and I can't find a way to change this in the taskbar properties so that I can see all my tasks in the taskbar.  Does anyone know how to return to the appearance of the normal task bar?  Thank you.  I think it was a HP update and not a microsoft update.

So, since none of the resident geeks have bothered to help, I thought about it: you must click with the right button on the taskbar, uncheck "Lock the taskbar", then drag the dots representing the left edge of the taskbar as you want.  I have no idea why the HP update has caused, but this fixed it for me.  But you should probably re - lock if you want to keep it normal again.  See you soon!

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