Application does not come to foreground / get focus in Windows XP

[Guest]

Hi all,

All of a sudden, when I have several applications opened I am no longer able
to open / maximize app's window by clicking its panel on the Taskbar. The
window simply will not get focus and the only way to get to it is by
minimizing all opened windows.

I searched the groups and couldn't find any anwer. If this question has been
answered before, I'd appreciate the link.

Any suggestions welcome!

TIA,
Michael

 

[Elmo]

Hi all,

All of a sudden, when I have several applications opened I am no longer able
to open / maximize app's window by clicking its panel on the Taskbar. The
window simply will not get focus and the only way to get to it is by
minimizing all opened windows.

I searched the groups and couldn't find any answer. If this question has been
answered before, I'd appreciate the link.

Any suggestions welcome!

That's been mentioned here before. You're right, there's been no answer
yet. This happened to me yesterday; I minimized the two other windows
to see the one that wouldn't come forward, closed it and reopened (by
clicking Reply again). It worked fine the next time. Specifically, it
was an NG reply using Thunderbird. The other two opened windows were
Thunderbird and Firefox. I mention what window, wondering if it's a
malady specific to Thunderbird, since its Reply window sat back behind
the other windows, even though it was brought to focus when its Taskbar
button was clicked. You know it's highlighted (somewhere) because the
Thunderbird window in front of it changed to the inactive color. This
window isn't off-screen either; all my Reply windows open in the same
spot, in the same size.. as did the following window after closing the
troublesome one.