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re: Settings perfect, disappear sometimes anyway
Monday, February 16, 2004 at 9:22 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by john
(1 messages posted)
Hey, guys...
I'm searching for help on what I believe is a related problem.
I'm running XP Home, and every so often (three or four times a day, lately), programs
just "won't show up." If I open, say, Internet Explorer... all I get is a busy mouse,
and then nothing! I Cntl-Alt-Del Task Manager, but all that happens is a Task Manager
icon displays on the RH taskbar, next to the time. Funny thing is, when I got pissed
off and decided to reboot via Cntl-Alt-Del x2, up popped two more Task Manager icons!
So then I end up with a lot of "Ending Program" prompts for Task Manager, and IExplorer,
and whatever else I've opened that doesn't show up on the screen.
Perhaps this will help? Perhaps not. I'm in the dark, and would love any help I
can get.
Thank you.
On Sunday, February 15, 2004 at 11:42 am, Z wrote:
>I have the same exact problem on my home PC, and several others which have had at
>one point some application installed which changes or customizes the looks & common
>tasks in WinXP. I haven't seen it happen in any other operating system which is
windows
>based.
>I configure new systems as part of my job, and I did start to notice that this starts
>happening after installing TweakUI, or TweakXP, and making changes to the taskbar
>within these "tweaking" programs. The changes work just fine for awhile, but as
the
>last couple of gentlemen said, the taskbar does not continue to function as it should.
>It will definitely lose it's ability to "autohide" until you either go into the
taskbar
>properties, uncheck "autohide the taskbar," then click on APPLY. Then, recheck "autohide
>the taskbar," and click OK---viola, it works again. But who the hell wants to do
>this every single time?
>This happens especially when the taskbar is in view while using web-based applications,
>or file sharing programs which utilize the browser. I'm not saying that these particular
>3rd party "tweak" programs are the root cause of the problem. But these types of
>programs change registry entries in order to "customize" your windows experience.
>Once I uninstalled the program, I still had the same problem. So, it appears that
>the problem is caused by another application which has changed a part of the registry
>concerning the taskbar, or the taskbar isn't seeing web-based, or other browser
based
>programs as anything that should cause the taskbar to autohide.
>Even the uninstall didn't change back what it manipulated. Did any of you who are
>experiencing the problem install any programs which are similar to TweakUI ? Maybe
>we can all find a common denominator. Maybe Windows XP isn't seeing a browser based
>program as a legitimate program which should make the taskbar autohide? Who knows.
>This problem pisses me off too. If they're going to offer a customizeable option
>to something as simple as the taskbar, then they should make damn sure that it functions
>as it should. Some programmer out there is probably loving this!
>
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