taskbar button padding distances?

no the opposite I don't want it further apart.. I want less wasted space especially on the taskbar.. win10 is awful at spacing things out and wasting ui space everywhere..

So its not possible? I'm sure it is possible did something similar back in  Win7 with Visual Style Builder

In order to move the taskbar buttons further apart, or closer together, you must edit the taskbar button images themselves.

Is this what you're referring to Koogle? I design my taskbar buttons to be 2 pixels apart.

Since he's posted in the Curtains section I think he's asking about Curtains.  Don't want to get the person completely confused...

Trying to get less padding space waste between each taskbar buttons...  from what I can tell in curtains you can only do so much with adjusting the margins on the image button being used... there is no way to change the actual button spacing/padding distance between buttons... though I know it has possible just doesn't seem to be exposed in curtains.. is that right?

As far as I can tell the positioning of the buttons and the total space they occupy isn't adjustable within Curtains.  I say that with only about 85% confidence and I'd happily be wrong, but I don't think so.

My bad DaveRI, but doesn't the same principle apply to Curtains, as it does for Windowblinds, just asking, as I don't skin Curtains?   

I've done a simulation of what I think he's wanting to do - pack the buttons more closely together as opposed to just changing edge transparency around the image.  Pretty sure you can't do it in Curtains (not sure you can still do it in WB on Win10?).  Something like this:

You can have the taskbar buttons 1-2 pixel apart if you want in Windowblinds Dave.

Thanks       

Quoting LightStar, reply 10

You can have the taskbar buttons 1-2 pixel apart if you want in Windowblinds Dave.

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Well you made me look.     Keep in mind that (I think) he's wanting to actually compact the buttons.

Image Below -  The top 7 WB skins are from different skinners over a period of time (one is Aero Midnight).  Hopefully it's a decently random sample with various settings.  The bottom two are a curtains skin, before and after trimming the extra transparency off the edges.

After eliminating the Start Buttons which do vary, the button objects themselves all take up the same spaces and land in exactly the same places, everything else is just visual.  That was an interesting masochistic exercise, next perhaps I'll try to untangle the wires under my desk.   

Windows 7 and 10 are very different things when it comes to the taskbar.

You cannot adjust any spacing, only the button visual with WindowBlinds or Curtains.

The space can be reduced using an app called 7+Taskbar Tweaker.

Quoting DaveRI, reply 9

I've done a simulation of what I think he's wanting to do - pack the buttons more closely together as opposed to just changing edge transparency around the image.  Pretty sure you can't do it in Curtains (not sure you can still do it in WB on Win10?).  Something like this:



 

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yeah exactly that though I have the buttons with text showing, so saving 20-40pixels of wasted empty padding space when only 2px padding is really needed would better for me

ah been using that for years hadn't really checked all the options,  I checked it now and seems it only reduces the padding on the pinned items.. still it works.. and proves it can be done at least on pinnned items. https://winaero.com/reduce-extra-space-between-icons-on-the-taskbar-and-tray-notification-area/