When minimizing a window in XP Pro, the files do not appear on the toolbar.
The only way I am able to return to that file's window is to access it
through the Task Manager Applications tab and click Switch To. Advise!
Did you drag the Quick Launch Toolbar up from the bottom of the
Screen?
It doesn't just appear automatically.
Your Quick Launch toolbar is where your Open Windows icons appear.
Move your cursor to the single bar at the bottom.
When you get a double-sided arrow (indicating you can drag the bar),
hold the mouse button and drag up. It may take you half-a-dozen drags
(or more), but if you move the mouse back and forth and drag up at
various point in roughly the middle of the bar and to the right,
eventually, you'll get a double bar.
When you have the double bar, right click, go to the top to "Menus",
then go to Quick Launch, and activate it. You will get a cluster of
about 3-5 icons to the top left of your quick launch. There will
probably be two vertical "ghost lines", one to either side of the
cluster. You don't want that configuration.
Move the cursor to the left of that cluster, and when you get a
4-sided arrow (indicating you can move the cluster), move the cluster
(your quick launch menu) up into the middle of the desktop, and click
its X to turn it off.
If a shadow line appears in the middle of the double bar at the bottom
of the screen, and the line runs the distance across the screen
horizontally, that's the configuration you want. If the shadow line
doesn't appear, running across the double bar, activate the Quick
Launch again.
Go to the double bar at the bottom, and follow the above directions to
activate the Quick launch bar again. You will get the cluster to the
left of the quick launch, with the vertical lines again.
Drag that cluster to the middle of the screen and turn it off again.
Keep doing this til you get the shadow line across the screen
horizontally.
When you get the line across the screen, turn the Quick Launch menu on
once again. This time, you'll have two horizontal bars. The top bar
will be for icons for '1-click" programs. Any program you put an icon
of on the top bar will open with one mouse click.
The bottom bar will be for your "Open Window" icons.
(long winded way of explaining how you get your "Open Window" icons,
but IT WORKS. )
Good Luck!
Tallahassee
