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Paul Crowley
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      16th Apr 2008
I got used to navigating to folders with the "Desktop" toolbar in the
taskbar. Like Quick Launch for folders. Triple-clicking on a folder
displayed there then opens an Explorer window.

With Vista this works right after logging in but usually within an hour or
so it stops. Clicking on the chevrons opens a list of items but clicking on
one of them closes the display. When this has happened Quick Launch stops
working as well - clicking on anything there is just ignored. This also
affects some Start button items - to log off it is necessary to use the
keyboard to select Log off because clicking on it is ignored.

There is no error message or anythng else that seems to trigger it. I
haven't seen any descriptions of this but I was hoping SP1 would fix it. It
didn't. This is Vista Ultimate 32-bit on a Quad core processor.
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Mark L. Ferguson
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      16th Apr 2008
You should be able to fix a lot of taskbar problems by turning off the Aero
theme, and restarting to turn it back on.

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"Paul Crowley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I got used to navigating to folders with the "Desktop" toolbar in the
> taskbar. Like Quick Launch for folders. Triple-clicking on a folder
> displayed there then opens an Explorer window.
>
> With Vista this works right after logging in but usually within an hour or
> so it stops. Clicking on the chevrons opens a list of items but clicking
> on
> one of them closes the display. When this has happened Quick Launch stops
> working as well - clicking on anything there is just ignored. This also
> affects some Start button items - to log off it is necessary to use the
> keyboard to select Log off because clicking on it is ignored.
>
> There is no error message or anythng else that seems to trigger it. I
> haven't seen any descriptions of this but I was hoping SP1 would fix it.
> It
> didn't. This is Vista Ultimate 32-bit on a Quad core processor.
> --
> Paul Crowley
> InfinaDyne


 
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Paul Crowley
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      16th Apr 2008
Logging off and back on fixes this every time.

For a while.
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"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> You should be able to fix a lot of taskbar problems by turning off the Aero
> theme, and restarting to turn it back on.
>
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> Mark L. Ferguson
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> "Paul Crowley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:7E521151-CF17-4793-BA01-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I got used to navigating to folders with the "Desktop" toolbar in the
> > taskbar. Like Quick Launch for folders. Triple-clicking on a folder
> > displayed there then opens an Explorer window.
> >
> > With Vista this works right after logging in but usually within an hour or
> > so it stops. Clicking on the chevrons opens a list of items but clicking
> > on
> > one of them closes the display. When this has happened Quick Launch stops
> > working as well - clicking on anything there is just ignored. This also
> > affects some Start button items - to log off it is necessary to use the
> > keyboard to select Log off because clicking on it is ignored.
> >
> > There is no error message or anythng else that seems to trigger it. I
> > haven't seen any descriptions of this but I was hoping SP1 would fix it.
> > It
> > didn't. This is Vista Ultimate 32-bit on a Quad core processor.
> > --
> > Paul Crowley
> > InfinaDyne

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