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Extra blank buttons on Taskbar for Win98

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by ron

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Does anyone have the answer to why just over the past couple of months blank buttons appear on the taskbar after the screensaver is on or after a program is closed out on Win 98SE?

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by jctech

I've noticed the same thing on my computer at home. It doesn't happen every time, and I can click on the blank button and it disappears. Hasn't been a major priority for me, but it would be interesting to know the solution.

by ron

My users are getting annoyed (300+) with the blank buttons, which in
turn makes it a priorty to me depending on the solution. Thanks anyway.
Ron

by icewolfe

This is usually a program that has hung a process after stoping. IE your screen saver may leave a system resource open after closing the program itself. usually when you click on the blank button it will close out. Also if you monitor the close programs menu (ctrl+alt+del) when this happens sometimes you can see residual apps or processes. Another since you are in win98 se try using SFC (System File Checker) to analyze your system files make sure you dont have a corrupt screen saver. For 3rd party applications try removing from add/remove programs, then going into your registry and cleaning remaining keys for the software removing all temp files etc then reinstalling the app which should make it better. Email me and let me know if that works.

by ron

Thanks, I'll have to find the time to try your solutions. It's a lot to do on
300+ machines. For some reason it seems to have just started after the
first of the year.

by tbradley

Don't worry about them. Microsoft sure isn't.

They say it's a code problem with IE4.0 which
loads when you load 98 ( even though you may have upgraded to 5.X or use Netscape ).

It's not even considered a minor problem, and
will not ever befixed, since MS is dropping
support for 98 soon.

by ron

Thanks, but I have 300+ users to deal with. I'll check TechNet and I'll
get back to you.

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