XP Taskbar Anomaly, Help?

R

root

Using XP Pro with all the latest WinUP fixes etc.(no SP2 yet) I like to keep
10-12 IE6 windows open and others. I don't set the combine mode so the
icons line up in the taskbar. After awhile(day) frequently I find that
clicking an icon(IE6 or OE6 NG message) in the taskbar does NOT open(cause
to come to foreground) the correct window that is associated with that
taskbar icon. One of the other IE6s pops forward. I have 384MB RAM and the
swap fileis 576MB and the disk is defragged. Task manager shows the
largest 'Commit Charge Peak' is 710 MB.

Does anyone know what happening and how to fix it? Restart does correct it
but how do I make it just work all the time?
 
G

Guest

It seems you, I and Roy from the previous post all have the same related problem. I tried deleting a registry key called "StuckKeys2" or something like that but I still can't get the application icons appearing.

I have a hunch that all three of us has the same problem: a registry key corruption problem. Mine all started when I tried experimenting with the taskbar location when it disappeared.

Someone more familiar with resetting the appropriate windows registry keys is out there?
 
R

root

DAN said:
It seems you, I and Roy from the previous post

What previous post/thread is that, please?

all have the same related problem. I tried deleting a registry key called
"StuckKeys2" or something like that but I still can't get the application
icons appearing.

I have no problem with the icons appearing in the taskbar and the icons
remaining in their original order in the taskbar.
I have a hunch that all three of us has the same problem: a registry key
corruption problem. Mine all started when I tried experimenting with the
taskbar location when it disappeared.

In the registry was corrupt then a restart likely wouldn't fix it. A
restart does fix it for me and it stays fixed for sometime but always
eventually(a day or so since last restart) then problem I describe returns.
The wrong window comes forward when I click a task bar icon. Usually it's
the same wrong wondow for several of the icons and it's often a window I've
been recently active in. Minimize that wrong window and then click the
target icon again and then usualy I can get the right one to come up.
Someone more familiar with resetting the appropriate windows registry keys
is out there?
 
R

root

root said:
What previous post/thread is that, please?

called
"StuckKeys2" or something like that but I still can't get the application
icons appearing.

I have no problem with the icons appearing in the taskbar and the icons
remaining in their original order in the taskbar.

corruption problem. Mine all started when I tried experimenting with the
taskbar location when it disappeared.

In the registry was corrupt then a restart likely wouldn't fix it. A
restart does fix it for me and it stays fixed for sometime but always
eventually(a day or so since last restart) then problem I describe returns.
The wrong window comes forward when I click a task bar icon. Usually it's
the same wrong wondow for several of the icons and it's often a window I've
been recently active in. Minimize that wrong window and then click the
target icon again and then usualy I can get the right one to come up.
keys
is out there?
to and correct
 
R

root

Using XP Pro with all the latest WinUP fixes etc.(no SP2 yet) I like to
keep 10-12 IE6 windows open and others. I don't set the combine similar
icon mode so the icons line up in the taskbar. After awhile(day) frequently
I find
that clicking an icon(IE6 or OE6 NG message) in the taskbar does NOT
open(cause to come to foreground) the correct window that is associated with
that taskbar icon. One of the other IE6s pops forward. I have 384MB RAM
and the swap fileis 576MB and the disk is defragged. Task manager shows
the
largest 'Commit Charge Peak' is 710 MB.

Does anyone know what happening and how to fix it? Restart does correct
it but how do I make it just work all the time?

In a follow-on post I added:

I have no problem with the icons appearing in the taskbar and the icons
remaining in their original order in the taskbar.

A restart does fix it for me and it stays fixed for sometime but always
eventually(a day or so since last restart) then the problem I describe
returns. The wrong window comes forward when I click a task bar icon.
Usually
it's the same wrong wondow for several of the icons and it's often a window
I've
been recently active in. Minimize that wrong window and then click the
original icon again and then usualy I can get the right one to come up.
 
K

Kelly

Comments by Raymond Chen (creator of TweakUI)

"Why the taskbar or the tray or taskbar toolbars sometimes lose their always
on top setting and their tooltips show behind top level windows."

It's not that the taskbar loses always-on-top; it's that there are two
always-on-top windows, the tooltip and the taskbar, and they end up fighting
with each other.

Why does it forget views? Because if it remembered every single view you'd
complain "Why is it still wasting memory remembering the view of this folder
I visited two years ago?"

Suggested workarounds:

Increase Folder View Options Limit: (Line 2)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Tool Tips Hidden Behind Taskbar (Line 321)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

To use the Regedit: Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it
and answer yes to the import prompt. REG files can be viewed in Notepad by
right clicking on the file and selecting Edit.
 
R

root

Kelly said:
Comments by Raymond Chen (creator of TweakUI)

"Why the taskbar or the tray or taskbar toolbars sometimes lose their always
on top setting and their tooltips show behind top level windows."

It's not that the taskbar loses always-on-top; it's that there are two
always-on-top windows, the tooltip and the taskbar, and they end up fighting
with each other.

Why does it forget views? Because if it remembered every single view you'd
complain "Why is it still wasting memory remembering the view of this folder
I visited two years ago?"

Suggested workarounds:

Increase Folder View Options Limit: (Line 2)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

The above reg edit fix did NOT fix the issue. Still after a couple of days
since the last boot the task bar icons stop bringing the proper window to
the foreground. Any other ideas?
 
K

Kelly

The above reg edit fix did NOT fix the issue.

Was a suggestion. Just as this is: reboot.
 

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