Hide/show icons

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Sally

The sliding arrow has vanished from my notification area. I have tried
resetting the values in the properties area, but it does nothing. Any
suggestions?
 
Try the following,

Right click a blank spot on the bottom tool bar,
select Properties,
Click Hide Inactive Icons and the Customize button,
Double click a current item and select your choice of Hide when inactive,
Always hide,
Always show.
 
I've got a related problem that just cropped up. I can activate/inactivate
the "hide inactive icons" feature is I go into properties and then customize
in the following way: take one of the entries that says "hide when inactive"
and change it to, say, "always hide." Apparently changing the setting for a
single item will get the thing going again.

but, related problem: the icons that are set to "hide when inactive" don't
seem to want to hide for this username (even though I tinkered, as above, for
this same username). The same feature seems to work fine for other users.

any idea if there's a way to tinker w the settings to recalibrate how long
it takes for something to register itself as "inactive"?

(also related: had same problem on office computer all of a sudden, worked
for several hours and nothing disappeared as inactive; left computer on
overnight, when I came back in morning it was functioning properly. weird.)

thanks?

Tenney
 
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