Classic Shell for Windows 8

I tried moving the taskbar to the right side of my screen but found that it interfered with my use of some of my apps. I then tried the left side, but found that it interfered with my icons which are placed there as well as some other apps. I then tried the top but found that it prevented me from closing apps (I tend to use the top-right corner control for closing apps).

So it ended up back at the bottom.

It might be different if I had a larger screen but I have become so used to working with a laptop that I constantly find screen real-estate to be too precious to willingly give much up. Hence the auto-hide setting on my machine.

Thank you for all of the information you gave me. I did not even think about using Classic Shell on Windows 7 since I thought it had been created only for Windows 8. I had downloaded and installed Classic Shell on the Windows 8 machine to see how it worked, but never tried the Start8 software because there seemed to be no point. Classic Shell worked, it was free, so why bother?

Now I will "bother". Thank you.