TASK MANAGER BECAME WEIRD

[RON]

My taskmanager utility has become weird. When I launch it
now, none of the usual options tabs appear. The title bar
is not present. I cannot chose to view running processes
or any other function. Only the first screen, displaying
running applications, appears.

This is happened in the past. The only thing that cured
it was to reinstall XP from square 1, thereby of course
resetting everything to zero, and requiring reinstallation
of all other applications.

Norton Virus detects nothing, using latest updates.

SUGGESTIONS???

ron

 

[David Candy]

Press Ctrl + Escape to change tabs. Alt + F4 to exit (both standard keys), dbl click a graph or border to toggle view mode.

 

[Kenny]

double click a graph or border to toggle view mode. No need to reinstall!
this is a feature not a bug because some people want only the graphs to be
visible without the menus and caption bar.

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much for your info. It has saved me a
great deal of trouble. Last time this happened, I thought
it was corrupted OS or a virus, so reinstalled all of XP.
Quite a pain.

But tell me this: I understand now this is a deliberate,
built-in feature. But why doesn't XP itself somewhere
tell you how to do unfo this? Why does XP make everything
so hard and complex ? Obviously, I accidentally double
clikced something that put taskmanager into "small
footprint". How is my little old grannie with a new pc
supposed to figure this out? Not everyone is aware of
these user groups. I guess you get your Grannie a Mac.

regards, ron

 

[Kenny]

I believe that XP has gone a long way into explaining things for the user.
It is a friendly OS.
However I tried reproducing your problem....when I switch to menu-less view
and end the task manager program
when I sstart it again by pressing alt-ctrl-del it pops up normaly again
with menus included.
I suspect that if you restart the computer and press alt-ctrl-del the menus
will be visible since this is the default view.
THe only way to get stuck in the menu-less view is to never reboot, or never
closing the task manager!
So it is perhaps the way you are using taskmanager that is the problem.