The surrounding items will reappear if you doubleclick the pane's border.
It's called 'tiny footprint mode'
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click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web interface.
http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm see ''rate a post''
Mark L. Ferguson
"Jim" <> wrote in message
news:FFA548D7-BAE8-42A5-A9D3-...
> My Task Manager does not display the tabs at the top of the window, i.e.,
> Applications, Processors, Services, Performance, Networking, and Users.
> It
> opens in the Processor mode. I have tried restoration without success. I
> am
> unable to close it without shutting off the computer? What can be done to
> get me back to a normal functioning Task Manager?
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> J Mann