From: Gregg N 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
news:414f71c7$1{at}w3.nls.net:

>> Maybe to give corporate sysadmins more tools for locking down the
>> desktop?
>
> If that's what it was it would be a policy only thing, not user
> settable.
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
> news:5mutk05el3h2m8unueefs6gseel0ak0aoo{at}4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:28:03 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>I have no idea why they did that either
>>
>> Maybe to give corporate sysadmins more tools for locking down the
>> desktop?  I suspect it to be configurable via group policy.

It's to keep from accidentally dragging the task bar off the bottom of the
screen, and to remove the space taken up by the dividers once you have set
it up the way you like. The IE toolbar has this also. I always enable it
because more than once I've accidentally dragged a toolbar when I meant to
click a button.

Gregg

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