I mentioned in the first post that I have it docked on the left, so all the icons go vertically. The problem is that there is "extra filler space" on the sides of the icons that I want to get rid of.
Yes, I have tried this, but unfortunately it only makes the icons smaller vertically, not horizontally which is what I want. The bar is about twice as wide as it normally was, and it takes up too much screen space.
I dock my taskbar on the left side of my screen and up until a while ago it was fine. I started messing around with the properties though and changed "Always combine, hide labels" to "Never combine" in order to see what the difference was. The taskbar got wider in order to accommodate the extra...