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problem with start menu
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:35 pm
by pikeh
its not showing active programs tabs and its really annoying. only way to switch is alt+tab instead of just clicking on them on start bar. Any one know a way of fixing this?
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:15 am
by Takitothemacs
lol good work matey... not got a clue how you managed that one... if you find out how it happened let us know...

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:45 am
by Mojo
do you mean task bar or start menu? active progs appear on the task bar, most recently used progs appear on the start menu (on the xp desktop) but active progs dont appear on the start menu in any confg iirc
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:46 am
by pikeh
task bar sorry

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:46 am
by Takitothemacs
pretty sure he means task bar matey... but I could be wrong...
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:27 am
by Gahn
Didn't u shrinked the bar left way so it doesn't show active progrs?
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:31 am
by Ovi
Can possibly fix it by restarting Explorer.
Bring up task manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del, after that depends on OS and version).
Switch to processes, select explorer.exe in the list, press end process.
Ti restart explorer go back to the Applications tab, press new task...
type explorer.exe in the box and hit OK.
Hopefully now things are back to normal.
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:26 pm
by pikeh
didnt work :< thanks anyways

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:28 pm
by Mojo
pikeh wrote:didnt work :< thanks anyways

were you by any chance messing with themes and appearence when they vanished?
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:17 pm
by pikeh
yes i think so

but ive tried reverting back to clasic theme and stuff like that