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by jennifer

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My task bar is not showing all my open items. For example I have mozilla, outlook, windows explorer and excel open. Currently I can not see the explorer unless I alt tab to the application. Is there some setting I need to change?

Thank you.

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by absolutely

Then point at the top of the taskbar. When the cursor image changes to a pair of vertical arrows, you can left-click and drag up. As high as you want!

by jennifer

I know how to unlock the bar and enlarge and reduce it but it still has the notification area on 2 lines.

by absolutely

If it isn't a matter of running out of space on your taskbar to display all your open programs, I don't know what is happening on your computer.

by andsaito

Thanks to AskLeo , I have found a solution at Kelly's Korner . Quoting him:

"Kelly Theriot, a Microsoft MVP, has a set of tweaks available at Kelly's Korner. They're fairly light on documentation, and perhaps even a bit techie if you want to understand them. On the tweaks page scroll down to item #240, and click on "Programs Aren't Minimized in the Taskbar". That will run, or download, a "vbs" (VBScript) program which will, after confirming, reset the Taskbar's properties. Note that several other aspects of the Taskbar will also be reset to their default states, but you should get your "running programs" area back."

Hope it works for you, as it did for me.

Best, Andre

by jennifer

I went into the task bar properties and have My Music shown as a menu. Is this what you mean?

by rob mekel

and did you start program item 240 or the one next to it. That is the prog. to give you your music folder to your start menu.

Hope this will solve your dilemma

Rob

by abryan

The script took two seconds to run and fix everything!

There are quite a few handy registry tweaks on this page..

by wenkf

Thanks for the advice, it works!

by bsh

Excellent - works perfectly now,Thanks

by chanklalan

It works for me. thanks so much!!
Within seconds running the prog again!!

by sec443

'Right click' on what you can see from the task bar go to 'Properties', click 'Show Clock' ---> Wabamski!! You can see it now.

This works for me!

by krishnans77

Thank you, I downloaded and while running It asks "the VB script error" wht can i do for this

by krishnans77

I done this but some VB script errpr was occur. Is it for only Xp or for windows too.
IF any solution for windows98 please guide me.

by clester99

Thank you for the FIX. I bumped into this problem and thought is was a setting issue as well.
Does anyone know why this could of happened?

by shree.jyothi

Go to Control panel
Go to 'Task bar and start menu 'option.
Tick 'Keep the task bar on tp of the windows' option.
Click ok

by woudi

hello, i tried this vb script and now im able to see the opened programs in the taskbar, but i didnt understand what was the problem, thx for your cooperation.

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