minimized windows disappear

Hi Everyone,
I have been reinstalling my Vista Premium system because of a hardware
issue. Everything is working well now, however a feature I wasn't aware of
before as showed up on my desktop.

In the quick launch box a new icon called "Swith between windows" is now
present, it is interesting a cute, but my problem is that whenever I minimize
a window now it disappears from the task bar and the only way to get back is
to go to the "Swith between windows" icon. I find this a bit
counterproductive. Is there any way to enable minimized windows to show in
the task bar?

Your help is appreciated.

Joe

I would try SFC. It sounds like a missing system file to me.
Some Windows Vista functions may not work, or Windows Vista may stop
responding: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833
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Mark L. Ferguson

"Joe R." <> wrote in message
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> Hi Everyone,
> I have been reinstalling my Vista Premium system because of a hardware
> issue. Everything is working well now, however a feature I wasn't aware of
> before as showed up on my desktop.
>
> In the quick launch box a new icon called "Swith between windows" is now
> present, it is interesting a cute, but my problem is that whenever I
> minimize
> a window now it disappears from the task bar and the only way to get back
> is
> to go to the "Swith between windows" icon. I find this a bit
> counterproductive. Is there any way to enable minimized windows to show
> in
> the task bar?
>
> Your help is appreciated.
>
> Joe
>

Hi Mark,
Thanks for your prompt response, I appreciate it.

I did run the sfc /scannow command and afterwards I got the message that
"Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations."

Also I could not open or find a sfcdetails.txt file. Any other suggestions?

Joe

Looking at the registry entries for the taskbar may show you something.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\Advanced

All I see is "TaskbarSizeMove" = 0

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"Joe R." <> wrote in message
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> Hi Mark,
> Thanks for your prompt response, I appreciate it.
>
> I did run the sfc /scannow command and afterwards I got the message that
> "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations."
>
> Also I could not open or find a sfcdetails.txt file. Any other
> suggestions?
>
> Joe
>