heh heh,.. Did he, by chance, accidentally drag the windows taskbar down off the screen? I have helped a couple people who did this by accident.
Or perhaps the bottom taskbar was changed to show only the QuickLaunch toolbar and not the TaskManager toolbar, or something similar If the taskbar is not locked, then these can be accidentally adjusted with a quick drag of the mouse. If not, then it sounds like another Windows 'feature'. The ALT-TAB keys previously mentioned should bring back the applications. Hope this helps, -tony On 5/24/07, Vicky Staubly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Judy Cosler wrote: > i'm running XP & sometimes I can't find my windows. I can get to the hiddden > window, by bringing up Windoze Task Manager. Another way of doing it is to cycle through the running applications with the Alt-Tab key-combo. By the way, Alt-tab also works in Gnome-based versions of Linux (KDE probably has an equivalent, but I don't know it). > Tourbus Rider Stuart Carlow wrote: >> A friend told me of a problem he had, starting yesterday. He readily >> admits that he may have accidentally done something wrong, but he doesn't >> know what. No editorial comments please, but he's running Windows ME and >> when he minimizes a window, it no longer appears in his task bar, so he >> can't get back to it. >> If he's running Outlook and minimizes it, it doesn't appear in the task >> bar, but he says that if he clicks on the Outlook icon in the Quick Launch >> bar, then it does restore his Outlook to the state it was in before he >> minimized it. >> A puzzler. Any advice? Thanks! >> Stu
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