Task bar alerts

[Spicoli]

Just installed Windows XP. I'm having problems with the task bar popping up from auto-hide to tell me updates are made to programs I'm running. Examples being downloaded files and instant messanger. I don't have a huge problem with the icon blinking once or twice to alert me, like previous versions of windows did. I do have a problem with the task bar not dropping into auto hide unless I acknowledge and bring up the "blinking" application icon. Is there a way of getting rid of this feature without completely going back to the Win98 interface?
Hope this made sense, thanks for any help given.

Ryan Ruiz

[MacGyver]

Get TweakUI, it has a feature to control this behaviour, although I don't know to the extent that you want. Worth a try, though.

<a href="http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui" target="_blank">http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui</a>

[DANIMAL]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by MacGyver:
<strong>Get TweakUI, it has a feature to control this behaviour, although I don't know to the extent that you want. Worth a try, though.

<a href="http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui" target="_blank">http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui</a></strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">YOu might mean tweak XP right MAc?

You can find it <a href="http://www3.sympatico.ca/d_n/favorite.htm" target="_blank">Here</a>