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With laptops and tablet being used more and more, have you looked at the placement of the commands/link buttons within the screens. for example I always have to scroll to reach the backup now button on the start backup page on a 15.4" wide notebook. 

Not confirmed on:

• iPad 2
• MacBook Pro 13" mid-2010 (resolution: 1280x800)
• MacBook Pro w/ Retina display 15" (effective resolution: 1280x800)
• HP Pavillion dv6-2120ev 15.4" WXGA with Windows 8 (1366x768)
• Asus Netspire One 10" netbook (I think it's something x 768)

If you have a huge taskbar and a huge browser chrome (address bar, toolbars, bookmark bars and so on) then, yes, you have a problem with vertical space. FWIW, the current GUI was designed with touch input in mind, following Joomla! 3 JUI guidelines. Maybe it's time to buy a new laptop or a higher resolution external display?

Also a link on the administrater backup page..back to Start backup now page would be good. I find i'm checking exactly when the last backup was completed and have to go to back to control p and then backup now and then start back up...

It's already in the toolbar?!

Based on your description / complaint my guess is that you are using a non-standard back-end template which renders a very thick header area, like Mission Control. These templates have the major drawback of eating up tons of your screen real estate. They are designed for high resolution displays, such as very big external displays or top-end, large screen laptops. Bastardising the interface of our components into something which makes no intuitive sense to humans or making a crammed interface is not a solution, it's a bad compromise. For example, I could move the Backup Now button to the right of the description box. Does it make sense? Western civilisations are used to ordering things left to right, top to bottom. Placing the button on the right makes it "invisible" because its meaning is decoupled from the form. It's no longer a form action, it looks like a comment area feature. These are subtle differences which can make or break the user experience.