"Clicking" on Desktop

[Rod Davies]

In XP, if you clicked on a blank area of desktop (desktop visible under open
Windows), the Desktop was bought to the fore.

In Vista this doesnt appear to happen. I click on the desktop, but the open
Windows remain on top -ie, nothing happens. I have to click on the desktop
icon in my Quick Launch Toolbar or hold down Win + TAB.

Is this correct, or am I simply missing a setting somewhere?

Tks for any help/guidance...

Rgds
Rod

 

[Doug]

How quickly I forget! But, even so, I am not sure that the behavior of your
XP desktop in coming to the front of your other windows was a normal XP
property. You didn't have any special desktop management software running
with XP I suppose?

 

[Doug]

How quickly I forget! Others will doubtless correct me if I'm mistaken, but
I am not sure that the behavior of your XP desktop in coming to the front of
your other windows was a normal XP property. You didn't have any special
desktop management software running with XP I suppose? - Doug

 

[Rod Davies]

Nup...& I THINK that was/is normal XP behaviour, though I could be
corrected!

Rgds
Rod

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Doesn't happen on my XP computer.

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[Rick Rogers]

Nor any of mine.

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Doesn't happen on my XP computer.

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Nup...& I THINK that was/is normal XP behaviour, though I could be
corrected!

Rgds
Rod

 

[Guest]

I still run XP Pro on 1 computer; and it does NOT happen in XP.

Mick Murphy in Australia(QLD)

 

[Rod Davies]

This is odd...it DID happen on mine AND it DOES happen on the wife's!!!

Not ta worry!

Rgds
Rod

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Doesn't happen on my XP computer.

Neither of mine, either. Nor my wife's

 

[Guest]

Market it Rod, you'll make a fortune!
Cheers
Mike in australia

 

[Richard Urban]

What you state is not the norm and I personally have never seen this occur.

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[Guy Thomas]

While it does not answer the question, I like to 'Get the job done', thus I
suggest Windows Key +d
Guy

 

[Jay Somerset]

While it does not answer the question, I like to 'Get the job done', thus I
suggest Windows Key +d
Guy

Just goes to show that no matter how long one has used Windows, and how
"experienced" one believes he/she is, you can always learn something simple
that was heretofore unknown. DAMN -- I wish I'd known about WindowsKey+d
before.

And it works with Win2K too! Thanks!

-Jay-

 

[Doug]

I had overlooked that too - wow! - WindowsKey+d most useful.

Thanks - Doug