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BetterRed · 11-13-2021, 05:27 AM

So, once upon a time I had this cute windows tray applet for weather. It scraped the Yahoo weather site. But like most screen scrapers it was flaky due to site layout changes, but the dev would have it fixed within a day or two.

However last time it stopped working it didn't get fixed. So, I scratched around for an alternative and discovered MS had a thing called News and Interests in the pipeline that included a weather tray applet -- so I decided to wait for it to show up, and I waited, and I waited, and…

Today @thiago,eec posted a screen shot, and I noticed he had a weather thing in his taskbar - so I went on the hunt.

Lo and behold, I discovered I've had the News and Interests thingme since June 2021!

But then I discovered it will only show up on the taskbar, if the taskbar is on the bottom of the monitor. I have mine on the left and have done for years, on XP I had a registry hack, that didn't work on Vista. However, since Windows 7 was released the Taskbar location on screen: Left/Top/Right/Bottom setting has been part of the furniture .

How can something that doesn't work on 75% of the target configurations get beyond the factory gate.

Does anyone know if Windows 11 has the Taskbar location setting. I have the sinking feeling they have probably taken it away. Like Mozilla took away the ability to have tabs UNDER the url bar adjacent to the pages to which the tabs refer.

BR

11-13-2021, 05:27 AM	#1029
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,826 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	So, once upon a time I had this cute windows tray applet for weather. It scraped the Yahoo weather site. But like most screen scrapers it was flaky due to site layout changes, but the dev would have it fixed within a day or two. However last time it stopped working it didn't get fixed. So, I scratched around for an alternative and discovered MS had a thing called News and Interests in the pipeline that included a weather tray applet -- so I decided to wait for it to show up, and I waited, and I waited, and… Today @thiago,eec posted a screen shot, and I noticed he had a weather thing in his taskbar - so I went on the hunt. Lo and behold, I discovered I've had the News and Interests thingme since June 2021! But then I discovered it will only show up on the taskbar, if the taskbar is on the bottom of the monitor. I have mine on the left and have done for years, on XP I had a registry hack, that didn't work on Vista. However, since Windows 7 was released the Taskbar location on screen: Left/Top/Right/Bottom setting has been part of the furniture . How can something that doesn't work on 75% of the target configurations get beyond the factory gate. Does anyone know if Windows 11 has the Taskbar location setting. I have the sinking feeling they have probably taken it away. Like Mozilla took away the ability to have tabs UNDER the url bar adjacent to the pages to which the tabs refer. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 11-13-2021 at 05:35 AM.