Windows XP acting wierd

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_E_

Discussion Starter · Apr 30, 2005

Just finished installing winXP SP2 last night. Everything went all right ( except uxtheme.dll , which gave a few headaches trying to get it to work ). However, there is a single problem annoying the heck out of me and I have no idea how to solve it. Whenever I minimise a program, it doesnt appear in the taskbar, it just disappears. I had to use alt + tab to shift from one program to another, which is a pain. Can anyone end my suffering with a magical solution please? :heh: Oh yeah, the programs don't appear on the taskbar even when they're maximised.

Yours,
-Elly

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WEXP

· #2 · Apr 30, 2005

That happens to me a few time too, but gets back to normal after a while... So, I don't have any clue. Maybe you're just unlucky ;P

Another problem I have though, when I have mIRC on, I can't play any games, can't change resolution, FireFox becomes unusable and no DirectX tests is able to start. When I close it, everything works fine. Dunno what this is, but if anyone knows, tell me...

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_E_

Discussion Starter · #3 · Apr 30, 2005

Well, I just solved it ^_^;
Here's what I used. Nice little proggy.

Yours,
-Elly

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masque

· #4 · Apr 30, 2005

I was going to say that it looks like your quick bar is stretched all the way out, making the taskbar seem empty.

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RF

· #5 · Apr 30, 2005

masque said:
I was going to say that it looks like your quick bar is stretched all the way out, making the taskbar seem empty.

Thats what I thought aswell. It could of also been your theme troubles elly.

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Talbain

· #6 · Apr 30, 2005

Well, first of all I'd suggest using Litestep and Mozilla Firefox. (Though these are more suggestions for general use and have nothing to do with the problem)

Also, are you using XP Pro or Regular XP?

Finally, typically if you lock/unlock the taskbar or change your taskbar "look" to classic mode, this bug goes away and your taskbar stuff comes back. Also, this can be caused by the Quicklaunch toolbar.

WEXP, try Trillian, tell me if the same problem occurs.

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hushypushy

· #7 · May 1, 2005

yeah, elly, dude, it was just that your quick launch was so freakin gigantic it took over the entire bar. all you had to do was shrink the quick launch area...

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Esturk

· #8 · May 1, 2005

That's crazy. Sometimes it's the simplest of things that seem so bad... Good you got it fixed Elly. When I looked at the picture, I was like WOW that's a big quicklaunch bar! It's happened to me before on Windows 98.

I don't use the quicklaunch bar anymore, I use keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+Alt+Whatever.

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_E_

Discussion Starter · #9 · May 1, 2005

Erm, It wasn't the quicklaunch bar since I tried disabling all toolbars and it still didnt work ( heck, I even moved them around and but no luck

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Yours,
-Elly

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