1. Unlock task bar. 2. Add a new toolbar (ie Links, Address, etc). 3. Move everything around JUST the way you want it. 4. Lock taskbar.
OOPS Windows moves things around, squishing some things together (so they have that stupid scroll arrow) and moving other things farther apart (so they waste screen real estate).
The only solution I could see would be to change the 'look' of the grippies so they are narrower. Something like that could be done somewhat easily on Mac OS, but is there a way in Windows ?