Re: task bar response

"Anne" <> wrote in message
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> When I have multiple screens open and I try to change screens (e.g., I
> have
> windows mail, Excel spreadsheet, and the internet open, I click on the
> icon
> on the bottom of the screen and the new screen does NOT come up. The
> current
> screen gets deactivated (the top bar is not dark blue, it's grayed out so
> it's not active), but the new screen doesn't come up.
>



Strange behaviour if that's what you typically get; ie a reboot doesn't fix
it. You sometimes get that behaviour if a particular program has 'crashed'
ie has stopped functioning correctly.

Otherwise the only thing I can think is that your mouse click for whatever
reason isn't actually considered to be hitting those taskbar items, so a
click is merely activating the taskbar itself. Possibly an atypical
combination of screen resolution, font choice, DPI settings might be
responsible, but admittedly that's a bit of longshot.

(NB 'Screens' , if I've understood you correctly are more commonly referred
to as 'windows')

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Jon

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:44:26 +0100, Jon wrote:

> (NB 'Screens' , if I've understood you correctly are more commonly referred
> to as 'windows')

I wanted to post the same thing. "Screens" usually refers either to
separate physical monitors, or else to separate virtual monitors switchable
by a keystroke or mouse click. It's common on Linux systems...

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