Mail not on top of IE

[Boodro]

I open IE then click the mail icon and 95% of the time it opens under IE.
Then if you click a link in your email and close that link page it's back
minimized or under IE.
Any ideas?

 

[Brian Bradley]

No ideas yet because your post is not clear, and we need more information.

We are talking about Vista and IE7, right?

Which "mail icon?" Did you customize your IE toolbar and add the "Read Mail"
icon? Or are you talking about a third-party toolbar such as the Google
Toolbar or Yahoo! Toolbar? If that's the case, then are you talking about
opening your Google or Yahoo! Web-mail page in IE?

When you say "it's back minimized," *what* is minimized?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Sorry, I would never consider launching Windows Mail that way.
I have it on my Quick Launch bar, so it is always accessible.
I have no idea why the Mail icon in IE does not work properly for you.

 

[Boodro]

Sorry guys, it's vista 32 the mail icon I am speaking of is by the home
button in the upper right. If I recall right I had to add it there under the
tools icon -toolbars-customize... It's always accessable there.
Thanks

 

[Boodro]

Sorry guys, it's vista 32 the mail icon I am speaking of is by the home
button in the upper right. If I recall right I had to add it there under the
tools icon -toolbars-customize... It's always accessable there.
Thanks

 

[Boodro]

Also by minimized I mean it has it's tab on the bottom of the screen but you
can't see the windows mail screen till you click it.

 

[Brian Bradley]

Boodro,

The behavior you described is normal.

Clicking on a hyperlink contained in an email message grants Internet
Explorer the focus so it can display the Web page referenced by the link.

Closing IE's tab (active window) that contained that page does not close IE
and therefore does not release focus. IE is still the active application
retains the focus.

Windows Mail is still running, as indicated by the icon and/or preview on
the Task Bar. Since the active application is displayed "on top" of inactive
ones, you can't see Windows Mail because it's covered by IE.

If you were to completely close all of IE instead of just one of its tabs,
Windows Mail would be revealed again, still running.

Does that help?

Brian

 

[Boodro]

Hey Brian I can understant that part but what about when you open the windows
mail. 95% of the time it opens it under IE. Is there a way to get it to open
above IE. To think of it in another way. Lets say I'm using Excel then I
open Word while keeping Excel, Word would open on top of Excel. That's all
I want, just the newest program (mail) to open to be on top of IE.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I was able to duplicate what you are seeing (WM opening underneath IE).
I don't know why it does that, and I don't know of a fix. If it bothers you,
you can open WM from the QuickLaunch bar instead.

 

[Boodro]

OK how do I do that. Is that the bottom left or bottom right.

 

[Brian Bradley]

The Quick Launch toolbar is on the left side of the taskbar. The icons on
the right side of the taskbar belong to the "notification area," sometimes
still called the system tray.

To add a program icon to the Quick Launch toolbar, click the icon of the
program you want to add (you can find most program icons on the Start menu
or the desktop), then drag it to the Quick Launch toolbar.

You can also right-click on the icon and choose "Add to Quick Launch."

If you don't see the Quick Launch toolbar, right-click an empty area of the
taskbar, click Toolbars, and then click Quick Launch.