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Neil Harrington
I've had this problem for over a month now and it's driving me crazy. I've
tried everything I can think of, or that someone else suggested, and have
gotten nowhere. Here's the problem:
1. When I have more than one window open, clicking on a taskbar button
doesn't bring that window to the front -- it just turns the button orange
and flashing. Usually THREE clicks on the taskbar button will bring the
window to the front, but not always. Sometimes I have to move other windows
out of the way and click on the window I want, and sometimes even that
doesn't bring it to the front. I understand this flashing orange has
something to do with "focus," or a program trying to get the system's
attention, or something like that.
2. The system is a homebuilt with Windows XP Home SP 2, 512 MB system
memory, with automatic updating turned on. I am using my ISP-supplied McAfee
security suite, and have been for about two months. At some point I started
using Yahoo! toolbar, and shortly after that this problem started. So I
uninstalled the Yahoo! toolbar but that made no difference.
3. When I first put the system together, it put two user icons on the
beginning screen, "Owner" and my name, both administrator. I have no idea
why, haven't seen that on my previous WinXP computers.. I used it that way
for quite a while, finally deleted the "Owner" account. It was not long
after that that I began having this problem for the first time, which makes
me wonder if that might have had something to do with it.
I have never seen this problem with any previous WinXP computer.
Can someone help me?
Neil
tried everything I can think of, or that someone else suggested, and have
gotten nowhere. Here's the problem:
1. When I have more than one window open, clicking on a taskbar button
doesn't bring that window to the front -- it just turns the button orange
and flashing. Usually THREE clicks on the taskbar button will bring the
window to the front, but not always. Sometimes I have to move other windows
out of the way and click on the window I want, and sometimes even that
doesn't bring it to the front. I understand this flashing orange has
something to do with "focus," or a program trying to get the system's
attention, or something like that.
2. The system is a homebuilt with Windows XP Home SP 2, 512 MB system
memory, with automatic updating turned on. I am using my ISP-supplied McAfee
security suite, and have been for about two months. At some point I started
using Yahoo! toolbar, and shortly after that this problem started. So I
uninstalled the Yahoo! toolbar but that made no difference.
3. When I first put the system together, it put two user icons on the
beginning screen, "Owner" and my name, both administrator. I have no idea
why, haven't seen that on my previous WinXP computers.. I used it that way
for quite a while, finally deleted the "Owner" account. It was not long
after that that I began having this problem for the first time, which makes
me wonder if that might have had something to do with it.
I have never seen this problem with any previous WinXP computer.
Can someone help me?
Neil