| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
|
 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: Minimized Windows Disappear From Taskbar |
 |
|
When I minimize something, it doesn't appear in the taskbar, but is still running in the program manager. I have tried playing with the taskbar settings, but it still does the same.
Any ideas? |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
|
| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Methinks you need to tell us a whole load more. Questions that spring to mind include:
what happens when you reboot?
what programs are affected- all or some?
what OS do you have?
how long has this been happening? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
|
| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| the saint wrote: |
Methinks you need to tell us a whole load more. Questions that spring to mind include:
what happens when you reboot? Nothing. Still dissappear.
what programs are affected- all or some? Any window I minimize.
what OS do you have? OS? What's that?
how long has this been happening? 2 days |
As I say, they are still there in the task manager. Just not visible as minimized windows.
Does that help? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
|
| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
no. What part of MORE DETAILS don't you understand?
Saint asked you 4 questions. You just repeated yourself without answering any of them.
Do you expect him to be some sort of *beep* ing magician or something?
Just answer ths one that he asked then:
What programs are doing this?
Some programs- for example Edonkey, Nero, and Zone Alarm- are set by default to just sitting in the system tray when you click the minimize icon.
To illustrate from another viewpoint, take MS-Word-\It DOESN't sit in the System tray regardless of whether it's full screen, minimized, or not running. If you you are experiencing this phenomenon with MS-Word, then you've probably got a really *beep* ed up o/s. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
|
| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Bulsajo wrote: |
Just answer ths one that he asked then:
What programs are doing this?
.
. |
Anything I minimize dissappears. Didn't you get that? Anything. Sytems manager. Internet. Word. Not any specific program. Just all of them. I am running XP. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
|
| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:07 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yes, that's much clearer.
Sounds like windows explorer is pretty messed up- time to throw the XP disk in and repair your o/s. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:11 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Bulsajo wrote: |
Yes, that's much clearer.
Sounds like windows explorer is pretty messed up- time to throw the XP disk in and repair your o/s. |
And if I don't have the disk? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:58 am Post subject: |
|
|
You really should look into somehow getting a disk.
Restoring Taskbar to default settings
[url=http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=740772]
"I use Windows XP Professional SP2 on my hp notebook.
I don't remember when the problem was started to happen.
When I minimized any application, it doesn't go to the
taskbar, it disappeared. How can I solve this problem ?"[/url] |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:38 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: |
no. What part of MORE DETAILS don't you understand?
Saint asked you 4 questions. You just repeated yourself without answering any of them.
Do you expect him to be some sort of *beep* ing magician or something? |
Geez, that's pretty harsh. He answered all those questions in his first post replying to the saint. Check his quote box. (Hint, the answers are in bold.) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:45 am Post subject: |
|
|
Me thinks Bulsajo is having a bad day....
This may sound dumb, but have you tried changing the theme? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Toby wrote: |
what OS do you have? OS? What's that?
Does that help? |
Oh yeah that helps!
I too missed Toby's answers so I understand why Bulsajo reacted the way he did. Forums like this don't tend to help us read very carefully.
OS is your Operating System and you've already told us you're running XP.
Have you tried system restore? This will reset your system to before the events started happening. To do this go to
Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore
make sure "restore my comp to an earlier time" is selected and click Next. Follow the instructions to set your computer back to before the problem started. NOTE: this will uninstall anything you have installed from now back to when you restore to but it will NOT delete any files you have created or downloaded.
Smart viruses etc know about system restore and will find a way round it. If you find the problem still persists despite this, I'd recommend a good virus scanner run in Safe Mode and prior to that, back up to CD/DVD all the files you desperately want to keep. We can cross that bridge if we need to come to it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yes, I missed Toby's answers too.
Sorry Toby, I owe you an apology.
I think the harshness of my post is mitigated by the fact that I found a solution to the problem and I made myself look like a jackass. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:09 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| the saint wrote: |
Have you tried system restore? This will reset your system to before the events started happening. To do this go to
Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore
|
A 1000 thank yous. It has worked a treat. Thanks |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Toby wrote: |
| the saint wrote: |
Have you tried system restore? This will reset your system to before the events started happening. To do this go to
Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore
|
A 1000 thank yous. It has worked a treat. Thanks |
glad to know it helped. Bear in mind what I said earlier though i.e. if your comp starts behaving similarly in a few days or weeks you have something that sys restore is unlikely to solve long-term. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
|
| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:08 am Post subject: |
|
|
Are you on Windows 98?
I know that some web pages used to be able to set your IE page to disappear into a small dot next to the my computer icon, or somewhere else on your screen. Can't remember how I fixed that, but it is easy to do. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
