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  • October 4, 2002 at 6:12 am #2338742

    Shadow boxes in taskbar

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    by dborgia · about 21 years, 6 months ago

    Why when a program is closed, does it leave a shadow box (Gray with nothing in it) in the task bar and you have to click on it to get rid of it?

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    • October 4, 2002 at 7:44 am #3486433

      Shadow boxes in taskbar

      by ann777 · about 21 years, 6 months ago

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      Generally, you should not have to do anything. I’ve seen these boxes before though and the only “fix” I have found to to backup all your data and then fdisk and format the drive and start over. The only thing I can figure is that all the trash in the registry is finally catching up to the system speed and slowing things down too much such that windows do not close and disappear properly (until you click on it again). How’s that for a run-on sentence?

    • October 4, 2002 at 7:45 am #3486432

      Shadow boxes in taskbar

      by cullman · about 21 years, 6 months ago

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      There are probably many possibilities here, but these two have been demonstrated on my own LAN: if your computer uses an nVidia video board, get the latest driver set with memory management specific to your board; if you have the Pervasive? SQL engine installed, get their latest update for your particular application.

    • January 2, 2003 at 2:49 pm #3472436

      Shadow boxes in taskbar

      by dborgia · about 21 years, 3 months ago

      In reply to Shadow boxes in taskbar

      This question was auto closed due to inactivity

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