Color Swatch Window constanly in the way.

I know how to resize the Color Swatch window, collapse it so no colors show, & I know how to close it altogether.
As long as it is open it is usually in the way of the .jpg image I'm working on in the center of the screen. I constantly have to move it out of the way.
On either side of my image there is plenty of room for it, if I could resize it to be taller & skinnier, but it doesn't let you do that. If I move it up high over the menu bars, it seems (I think) to move itself back down where it is in the way as I work.

Ward, I didn't know about the D key to reset foreground to black and background to white. Thanks for that.
Brian, at least I now know what the Palette Bin is. I checked it on the Window drop down menu.
No, I have not been using it. I guess I should check out all the other stuff that is over there to the right.
Anyhow I see if I Close (not collapse but close) the Color Swatches Window, instead of disappearing it will move to the Palette Bin if the Pallete Bin is showing (or perhaps even if the Bin is not showing).
Other than Window / Palette Bin is there a keyboard shortcut to hide or show the Palette Bin? I see I can change the horizontal size ot the Palette Bin with my mouse and as a result squeeze the Color Swatch Window & everything else to a narrow tall vertical work area.

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I am infuriated, crazed, insanely angry, that I cannot resize this window.
This seemed like it was a problem through at least one iteration of Photoshop proper, and thankfully was either finally fixed, or I figured out how to use the interface differently.
You need to be able to make displays of your swatches look like this below for them to be of much use. The Photoshop Elements display above is unacceptable.
You might think that if you chose the larger size squares that the problem would go away? NOPE.
Of all the companies in the world to let something like this pass, Adobe should be at the bottom of the list. Please, please tell me I'm wrong, that I'm an idiot, and that there is a way to make this display properly.

OKAY. So, this is how to solve the problem yourself...
You can add your own swatch squares, rearrange them, and save your own swatch collections. I first chose white for blanks, then thought better of it and went for the same color as the blank space in the window pane. Works nice, huh.
If you'd like, you can download a zipped copy of the ACO file I made here: http://www.xsonn.com/pub/Default_small_ACO.zip.
On Windows 7, PSE10 likes to store presets in this folder:"C:\Users\{USER_NAME}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\10.0\Presets\Color Swatches\"
But you can open the ACO filfe from anywhere.
NOTE: If you pick Load Swatches..., as illustrated in the menu below, PSE10 will add the new ACO to the existing Color Swatches window. In most cases, you will want to select to Replace Swatches....
If you just have a hankering to build your own, or you want to fix other swatch collections... The overall fix takes place in two steps. One, adding 'blanks' in the main UI. Then, after that you then have to move them around, but ONLY AFTER selecting Preset Manager... above. And then after leaving the preset manager, you can save your collection out. Easy... but not easy.
Don't get me wrong. I am still infuriated, crazed, and insanely angry that I cannot just resize this window. This is really just my own little way of proving it.
Cheers! =)`

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Welcome to the HP Support Forums!
I understand that since installing your HP Deskjet 1000 Printer on your Windows 8 computer you have not been able to print in colour. Because you are able to print fine from a Windows 7 computer we know that this issue is not being caused by your printer. I would like to assist you today with resolving this issue. I'm thinking that your machine is either experiencing a driver conflict or a setting issue within the Windows 8 computer. Please follow the steps below.
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