Pinned forever

A minimized program *IS* running.

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Windows Desktop Experience & Security


"John" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Windows 7 64 bit.
> Open program and it is minimized to taskbar
>
> Left click just shows the name of the program
>
> Right click shows
> name of program
> "Unpin this program"
> "Open program"
>
> Clicking "unpin" just changes the middle message above to "Pin this
> program"
> Open this program simply opens a copy of the program with the exact same
> attributes as the first copy.
>
> At no point does a maximize/minimize prompt appear so, apparently this
> program is doomed to lie in the taskbar without running forever or until I
> close it.
>
> I've never seen behavior like this till win 7 64. What is going on?
>
> thanks
>
> John
>
>

The program access shortcut can be pinned to the taskbar. If so, when
you right click on the shortcut on the taskbar the recently used files
are listed for launch with the program or you can choose simply to
launch the program.

When the program is running, the taskbar shortcut is surrounded by a
highlight box.


On 29/11/2009 03:36, John wrote:
> Windows 7 64 bit.
> Open program and it is minimized to taskbar
>
> Left click just shows the name of the program
>
> Right click shows
> name of program
> "Unpin this program"
> "Open program"
>
> Clicking "unpin" just changes the middle message above to "Pin this
> program"
> Open this program simply opens a copy of the program with the exact same
> attributes as the first copy.
>
> At no point does a maximize/minimize prompt appear so, apparently this
> program is doomed to lie in the taskbar without running forever or until
> I close it.
>
> I've never seen behavior like this till win 7 64. What is going on?
>
> thanks
>
> John
>
>

John wrote:

>Windows 7 64 bit.
>Open program and it is minimized to taskbar
>
>Left click just shows the name of the program
>
>Right click shows
>name of program
>"Unpin this program"
>"Open program"

>Clicking "unpin" just changes the middle message above to "Pin this
>program"
>Open this program simply opens a copy of the program with the exact same
>attributes as the first copy.
>
>At no point does a maximize/minimize prompt appear so, apparently this
>program is doomed to lie in the taskbar without running forever or until I
>close it.

Left-clicking open program icons normally toggles window visibility (ie
minimised windows are maximised, and vice versa).

Pinning is the act of putting programs "into" the task bar (quick launch
equivalent).


>I've never seen behavior like this till win 7 64. What is going on?

Possibly the application isn't compatible with Windows 7 in some way, or
the window state has become severely confused (eg off-screen if you've
used a multi-monitor configuration along the way).

You might try right-clicking on an empty portion of the task bar and
choosing "Cascade Windows" (or one of the other windows-rearranging
options).

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Windows 7 64 bit.
Open program and it is minimized to taskbar

Left click just shows the name of the program

Right click shows
name of program
"Unpin this program"
"Open program"

Clicking "unpin" just changes the middle message above to "Pin this program"
Open this program simply opens a copy of the program with the exact same
attributes as the first copy.

At no point does a maximize/minimize prompt appear so, apparently this
program is doomed to lie in the taskbar without running forever or until
I close it.

I've never seen behavior like this till win 7 64. What is going on?

thanks

John

In this case the program is open but not doing anything. For instance
Word can be open but not accessible. Technically running but might as
well not be.
Richard Urban wrote:
> A minimized program *IS* running.
>

Steve Foster wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> Windows 7 64 bit.
>> Open program and it is minimized to taskbar
>>
>> Left click just shows the name of the program
>>
>> Right click shows
>> name of program
>> "Unpin this program"
>> "Open program"
>
>> Clicking "unpin" just changes the middle message above to "Pin this
>> program"
>> Open this program simply opens a copy of the program with the exact
>> same attributes as the first copy.
>>
>> At no point does a maximize/minimize prompt appear so, apparently this
>> program is doomed to lie in the taskbar without running forever or
>> until I close it.
>
> Left-clicking open program icons normally toggles window visibility (ie
> minimised windows are maximised, and vice versa).
>
> Pinning is the act of putting programs "into" the task bar (quick launch
> equivalent).
>
>
>> I've never seen behavior like this till win 7 64. What is going on?
>
> Possibly the application isn't compatible with Windows 7 in some way, or
> the window state has become severely confused (eg off-screen if you've
> used a multi-monitor configuration along the way).
>
> You might try right-clicking on an empty portion of the task bar and
> choosing "Cascade Windows" (or one of the other windows-rearranging
> options).
>

Think it all started when I installed updated driver for ATI card
yesterday. This seemed to include a separate desktop manager of some
sort. So I deleted all the ATI stuff but it still is working very
strangely. Not sure what to do now.

John