Taskbar frustration

[Mitch Tulloch]

OK so maybe I'm mouse challenged, but something really annoys me about the
taskbar. On my XP machine I have say a dozen apps and folders open on my
desktop, most of them maximized, and there are a dozen corresponding buttons
on the taskbar, one for each item. Say I want to see folder X and I click on
the corresponding taskbar button to bring the folder forward, but because
I'm in a frenzy I click the button again a second time without thinking and
the folder minimizes so I have to click it a third time to bring it forward
again...argh!

Is there any way to tweak XP so that when a program or folder is in the
foreground and I click it's taskbar button, the program/folder *doesn't*
minimize but simply stays in the foreground?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Not that I know of Mitch, no. That sort of behavior is by design and would
require changing the explorer shell responses.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Mitch Tulloch]

Yeah that's what I figured Rick. Guess I'll have to slow down a bit as I
work ;-)

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Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://itreader.net

Not that I know of Mitch, no. That sort of behavior is by design and would
require changing the explorer shell responses.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

OK so maybe I'm mouse challenged, but something really annoys me about
the taskbar. On my XP machine I have say a dozen apps and folders open on
my desktop, most of them maximized, and there are a dozen corresponding
buttons on the taskbar, one for each item. Say I want to see folder X and
I click on the corresponding taskbar button to bring the folder forward,
but because I'm in a frenzy I click the button again a second time
without thinking and the folder minimizes so I have to click it a third
time to bring it forward again...argh!

Is there any way to tweak XP so that when a program or folder is in the
foreground and I click it's taskbar button, the program/folder *doesn't*
minimize but simply stays in the foreground?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://itreader.net

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Been afflicted with that myself, I find it easier to alt+tab to change
screens. But, then again, I'm mostly a boarder and that is comfortable for
me.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Yeah that's what I figured Rick. Guess I'll have to slow down a bit as I
work ;-)

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://itreader.net

Not that I know of Mitch, no. That sort of behavior is by design and
would require changing the explorer shell responses.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

OK so maybe I'm mouse challenged, but something really annoys me about
the taskbar. On my XP machine I have say a dozen apps and folders open
on my desktop, most of them maximized, and there are a dozen
corresponding buttons on the taskbar, one for each item. Say I want to
see folder X and I click on the corresponding taskbar button to bring
the folder forward, but because I'm in a frenzy I click the button again
a second time without thinking and the folder minimizes so I have to
click it a third time to bring it forward again...argh!

Is there any way to tweak XP so that when a program or folder is in the
foreground and I click it's taskbar button, the program/folder *doesn't*
minimize but simply stays in the foreground?

--
Cheers,
Mitch Tulloch
[MVP--Windows Server]
http://itreader.net