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Taskbar Blackout
If you want the Start Menu to look and work more like Win95/98 do this: Start | Settings | Taskbar and Start Menu | Start Menu ... click "Classic Start Menu" If Before you start changing anything, right-click on My Computer and select Properties/Hardware/Device Manager to ensure all your hardware is set up and

Changing focus to recently retrieved mail, AND Ver6 doesn't ...
If it uses anything but a handful of chipsets there's no way on earth it will work under Linux. "£5 says we will get your modem working" - text message I got from my Linux spod mate today. That'll be an easy fiver I can make. If it's not the right chipset the only way they can get it to work is reverse engineer the

Spyware and Popups
Jim Christian jhchrist...@earthlink.net microsoft public windowsce See if there is anything here to help you, Jim. 481. I struggled for hours to get mine to work. The below readme file have dozens of gotcha's so make sure you read them. Here are my thoughts to help you with your installation. 1.

General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Unfortunately the methods don't exist, so I am forced to work in a "non-efficient" manner. I manipulate a system to fit my needs. I'm sure you do, however that Or just R-Click on the Taskbar and Tile the Windows? Works for me. Or right click on them, and select copy or cut? Do you have to do things in the least

General Rant from a Linux Newbie
The taskbar is cosmetic fluff. I personally find the taskbar to be cosmetic fluff that takes up too much room on my monitor. One of the things I can't stand about Windows is all the STUFF surrounding me when I work. Mac OS has everything well organized atop the top of the screen, available at the click of the mouse

Check this out! A multiple file renamer with a twist!
It's easy if you do it this way: after selecting and beginning to drag your mp3s, hover over the taskbar icon to drop to. .... I am no techie, granted, but I don't install anything that isn't an aid for work (I have the computer at home for that), but I must have my shell extensions to work and navigate quickly.

Why the Dock sucks ass [Was: Re: Microsoft licenses Sonic DVD ...
I know my old win2k login/password if this at all helps. Or are they lost? When I try, it just says access denied -Using the new XP toolbar, can u resize the quick launch section of it Yes, right-click on it and unlock the taskbar. Then you can resize. - I use trillian, but it seems MSN Messenger always comes up.

Taskbar doesn't work on startup
The taskbar like thing is called the Kicker bar, run by an applet of the same name. If you right click on the kicker bar, a menu should come up with an add item (if you click If that doesn't work, my working theory about the messed up .desktop file is likely incorrect. It SHOULD work, from there. If it doesn't,

Activesync error 80180B04
I got a weird problem with my system. Sometimes I can't focus a window with the mouse. When I click, it just doesn't work. I can't use the buttons to close, minimize and maximize as well. I can't close the window or do anything from the taskbar too. Plus I can't move at all icons on the desktop and I can't drag and

Test
Hell, if I wanted to I could do it the Mac way and open and close a boatload of windows to clutter my desktop and not see my other work, but why? Beats the hell out of me. Windows 95, I just go down to the taskbar and click on an app. Again, instant gratification, no waiting. I switch all the time.

Quality of Object Desktop Products
Sometimes the right-click commands won't activate at all. If I hit "Select All," it selects text from my outgoing message, not from the Expand window. happens is the copying and pasting in the address book don't work, although this description is a bit different from anything I can remember hearing before.

WinMe fails to load Windows on HP Pavilion
Every now and again, Word won't let me make it anything other than full size or shrunk to the taskbar and in order to maximise it again, I have to right-click and choose Maximise (the Restore option is greyed out). Clicking on the icon on my taskbar won't work. I can solve this problem by restoring a copy of my

Great new Cyber Patrol cracking method!
Here's the part of my normal "about:blank" post about it: "I don't usually recommend anything but freeware that I've confidence in, but AT YOUR OWN RISK, not free ($29.95), When I click clear documents in the Start Menu Programs tab of the Taskbar properties, it clears all dropdown items in the address bar.

This might hurt...
Hell, if I wanted to I could do it the Mac way and open and close a boatload of windows to clutter my desktop and not see my other work, but why? Windows 95, I just go down to the taskbar and click on an app. Again, instant gratification, no waiting. That is usefull, but not when the page is loading.

Running applications don't appear in the taskbar
She could however click at some points on the desktop and get a "Tasks" dialog box. I can't remember ever seeing such a dialog. She now sees a plain white screen with no TaskBar, no icons, no Shortcut bar. The Windows key doesn't work. TaskManager doesn't report that anything is running (could that really

capacitor blown = WinXP experience
+Elmo_Tech elmog...@iglou.com alt windows98 Smitty wrote: When I first boot up, everything seems to load ok, but then when I click on shortcuts, taskbar or even program menu nothing happens. This usually results in me dialing my ISP, then finding I can't open anything without going through the 'run' command.

automake and subdirectories
That's the Quick Launch bar, nestled between the Start Button and the normal Windows Taskbar. The fun begins when you right-click a blank area on the Taskbar .... It will change the way you work in Windows, and you'll never want to be without the Desktop Upgrade again. Tom Koch chi...@xs4all.nl Awareness is free.

Toolbar Tips (Text only)
(The Dock behaves like the Windows taskbar when "Always On Top" is turned on.) Problem is, with the Dock hidden, there's no visual feedback that an application is starting .... I added it to my Dock. :-) Unix commands generally seem to work fine through the Terminal application. Both emacs and vi are available.

Help me please!! Maximizing Explorer doesn't work!
In WinXX, even with your "activation follows mouse" option, when I click that scroll bar, that help file will pop to the front obscuring my app window. .... The fact is you have been denouncing anything not connected to Windows, and anytime a feature of Windows or a business practice of MS comes into question,

All you Linux haters, read this!
"On Windows 2000, I got a cheerful report (but only after double-clicking the obscure taskbar icon for managing plug-and-play hardware) " What exactly is so 'obscure' about it? It has a Smart Tag that comes up and tells you what it does. If you double click on it the program opens up with a list of all your