lost minmized bars behind toolbar

Hi everyone!
Need your help. Everytime i minimize a window it seems to go and disappear
behind my taskbar and i cannot retrieve it without using the task manager.
Would anyone know how to make it reappear normally on my taskbar ?
Thanks
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Karen

If this is on Windows XP, you may try the following:

Click on your taskbar, select Properties, check the line "Group similar taskbar buttons", apply change.

You can also use this 2-key step to "toggle" thru running programs (the next time you need it, instead of using Task Manager):
Press and hold ALT-key on your keyboard; then tap the TAB-key to cycle thru thumbnails of running programs (you'll also see descriptions of the programs ).

One last thing: The Windowsupdate group is dedicated to Windows Update issues. In the future, please post your issues / questions that really relate to Windows into a general group.
For XP, use microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
or microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers

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Maurice N
MVP Windows - Shell / User
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"Karen" wrote in message news:F2FB42FE-6C96-40C8-9B3A-...
> Hi everyone!
> Need your help. Everytime i minimize a window it seems to go and disappear
> behind my taskbar and i cannot retrieve it without using the task manager.
> Would anyone know how to make it reappear normally on my taskbar ?
> Thanks
> --
> Karen

Thanks Maurice for your answer. Sorry i used the wrong group.
I did try your advice on the toolbar but the "group similar taskbar button"
was already ticked. I try undoing it and re-doing it but it made no change.
Thanks for the tip to go through running program.
Any other idea of things i can try ?
Thanks in advance
--
Karen


"Maurice N ~ MVP" wrote:

> If this is on Windows XP, you may try the following:
>
> Click on your taskbar, select Properties, check the line "Group similar taskbar buttons", apply change.
>
> You can also use this 2-key step to "toggle" thru running programs (the next time you need it, instead of using Task Manager):
> Press and hold ALT-key on your keyboard; then tap the TAB-key to cycle thru thumbnails of running programs (you'll also see descriptions of the programs ).
>
> One last thing: The Windowsupdate group is dedicated to Windows Update issues. In the future, please post your issues / questions that really relate to Windows into a general group.
> For XP, use microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
> or microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
>
> --
> Maurice N
> MVP Windows - Shell / User
> -----
>
> "Karen" wrote in message news:F2FB42FE-6C96-40C8-9B3A-...
> > Hi everyone!
> > Need your help. Everytime i minimize a window it seems to go and disappear
> > behind my taskbar and i cannot retrieve it without using the task manager.
> > Would anyone know how to make it reappear normally on my taskbar ?
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Karen
>

This seems to be another side effect of the last security update, at
least on some notebooks with Tablet Edition. Apparently the update
makes the Tablet Input Panel take up the whole taskba. The instructions
in the following article fixed the problem for me:

http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBT/tip9700/rh9714.htm