Task manager tabs gone in winXP

[rUfUnKy]

I was going to play a game, zone alarm was on and the window with the tic box popped up and froze the game..seeing the game was covering the tic box I tried to ctrl/alt/delete out of the game and well that didn't work so I then started mashing the keys (ya, like you never did that before :rolleyes: )well when I finally got back to the desk top the task managers tabs where gone..Ok this happened to me before but for the life of me I can not remember what I did to get them to show again.....

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oh and by the way how do you make a desktop hot key so I don't have to go through this again???

[rUfUnKy]

..here is a pic ..I could't put it in jpg because it kept saying that it was to big no matter how small I made it.......:confused:

[redduc900]

This can occur if Task Manager is running in "Tiny Footprint" mode. When you double-click the empty space in the border around the tabs, Task Manager switches to this mode.

To switch Task Manager to it's normal display mode, double-click the top border of the window. When Task Manager is running in "Tiny Footprint" mode, you can resize the window.

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by redduc900
This can occur if Task Manager is running in "Tiny Footprint" mode. When you double-click the empty space in the border around the tabs, Task Manager switches to this mode.

To switch Task Manager to it's normal display mode, double-click the top border of the window. When Task Manager is running in "Tiny Footprint" mode, you can resize the window. Hey thanks, redduc900 I knew it was something simple just couldn't figure it out..........
:)

[Yodums]

Whoa I never knew that.
This will be going in the brain hehe..

Yodums

[cyberey66]

you can set the show desktop as a hotkey button. I just copied the link from the quick-lauch on my taskbar to c:\ and went into the registry and searched for the keys that set my keyboard's hotkeys up and pointed one to "c:\show desktop.scf"

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by satan
you can set the show desktop as a hotkey button. I just copied the link from the quick-lauch on my taskbar to c:\ and went into the registry and searched for the keys that set my keyboard's hotkeys up and pointed one to "c:\show desktop.scf" I figured out a easy way..I created a shortcut to show desktop from my taskbar then dragged it to a folder/right clicked the shortcut then went to /properties/shortcut tab/short cut key.....the rest is self explanatory...:D ....Thanks though :)

[nil_esh]

Why not use Window-M or Window-D to show desktop?

And Window-E to bring up explorer, etc...

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by nil_esh
Why not use Window-M or Window-D to show desktop?

And Window-E to bring up explorer, etc... LOL.... I didn't even know there was already a short cut for the desktop....that's what I love about this place ..you learn something new all the time...Thanks :)

[nil_esh]

Cool, I found that custom keyboard shortcut tip useful myself.. I'm gonna make keyboard shortcuts for all my commonly used apps now :burn:

[cyberey66]

While were on the keyboard subject;
My keyboard drivers won't let me change all the buttons, most are locked. Well just enter the registry and find the keyboard folder and the rest is self-explanitory, just play around until you see what keys are for what buttons.