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Old 10-08-2006, 01:40 PM   #1
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Task bar icons dissapear

I have seen this in windows 98 and xp, when I minimize a program the icon dissapear of the task bar, but if I use alt+tab the program are there open, is there a way to restore the taskbar icons to normal behavior?

note that they are not in the system tray?
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Alt tab is suppost to bring apps up. What do you consider "normal?"
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Old 10-09-2006, 11:44 AM   #3
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Normal operation would be the icons in the taskbar when I minimize a program but they just dissapear.
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Old 10-09-2006, 11:57 AM   #4
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Are they there when the windows are NOT minimized?
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I do not have a quick fix, however I have encountered something similar on my Father's PC, what I ended up doing was creating an alternate administrator account and the GUI was how it should have been. Not a permanent fix by any stretch of the imagination. I hope that helps if only in the mean time.
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Old 10-10-2006, 02:57 PM   #6
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yes I have read that creating a new user fix this, but is there a registry hack to solve it?
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