Windows Forum

Ask something
Discussion Locked

Win98 Taskbar missing Running Apps.

0 helpful
7 replies

by jaytmoon

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

I just did a clean install of Win98se on a dell t500, P3-500 with 384Mb ram 30Gb hdd. Anyway, once the install was complete and I reloaded the Office XP apps etc, I have no running Apps shoing on the taskbar (except for the clock,task sched, etc. I have Norton AV '02 No viruses detected. Any Ideas?
Thanx, John

7 replies

by techkid

That's a good thing. Running apps in the taskbar is bad. You should congradulate yourself because now your system will crash less often

by jaytmoon

Maybe I did not make my ?? clear. Its seems that normally the programs running on the desktop have a tab displayed in the center part of the task bar. After the install, they no longer are present. I CAN tab through them using the Alt-Tab keys. Shouldn't the Apps have a box showing in the taskbar?

by techkid

Oh, I thought you meant you had no icons right next to the clock. The clock, NAV, and task scheduler are ok to have there but anything else just takes up memory and processor time.

If you minimize aplications and they don't show on the taskbar then yeah, that's a bad thing. Unfortunately, I have not seen that before and can offer no help.

by jaytmoon

I hate uto use "unacceptable" since any educated response deserves some credit these days.

by c.barnhorst

Check each of your Office apps to see if the View option, Show Windows in Taskbar is checked or unchecked. In Excel, for example, you would navigate Tools/Options.../View tab and it should be a radio button in the upper right of the View tabsheet.

by jaytmoon

th Office Apps are all checked off and showing when in use on the taskbar. The problem seems to be the more generic apps (eg: kazaalite, Edomkey, Accrobat and such) although I can hop through them using the alt-tab keys. occationaly they may show upafter the key strokes are used. VERY Weird!
I may have to try another re-load. :(

This discussion is closed to new replies.