Okay, I disabled User Pic and chose the 34px border on the top stylehack to get it working.
It decreased the space on the right.
Any ideas how to shrink these two spaces?
1. perchaps you have to change the content margins of Poglist on basic, set them forexample from 9, 2, 11, 0 to 9, 2, 3, 0 .
2. i have not done the experiment to use as a true size image the places list.
Anyway, the vertical distance is changing otherwise when you do right clik to your takbar, properties, start menu, customize, number of recent progrms to display ---> if you choose a small number, vertical area 2 would be smaller.
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