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  1. December 11th, 2002, 07:58 AM #1
    goldmeier
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    Question taskbar buttons

    We recently bought a new laptop for a user with WinXP Pro. When the user opens up a few windows, he noticed a weird thing happening. When he clicks on the buttons for the various open windows, it does not make the clicked window active. The current windows remains on top and does not switch to the other windows.

    I cannot find anything about this on google - the only thing I can find taskbar button related is about how to ungroup the buttons. Not our problem..

    Anybody have any ideas?

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  2. December 11th, 2002, 08:34 AM #2
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    Is it always the same type of window that does this? EG internet explorer or windows explorer or a particular application?

    If it's a particular app - it could be set to be always ontop?
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  3. December 11th, 2002, 08:44 AM #3
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    no. It does not matter what he opens. He opened (to show me) about 5 windows - OE, My Docs, Explorer, IE, and Word. Clicking the buttons did not switch active windows..
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  4. December 11th, 2002, 08:48 AM #4
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    If you bring up the task manager, are any of the windows shown as not responding?
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  5. December 11th, 2002, 09:58 AM #5
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    Originally posted by NooNoo
    If you bring up the task manager, are any of the windows shown as not responding?
    no, and alt-tab switches between the windows properly. Just clicking on the buttons does not work.. weird.
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  6. December 11th, 2002, 10:10 AM #6
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    Daft idea, is the task bar locked? trying unlocking then locking or the other way round...
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  7. December 11th, 2002, 10:34 AM #7
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    Originally posted by NooNoo
    Daft idea, is the task bar locked? trying unlocking then locking or the other way round...
    tried both already..
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  8. December 11th, 2002, 10:51 AM #8
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    sfc /scannow ?
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  9. December 11th, 2002, 12:21 PM #9
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    Originally posted by NooNoo
    sfc /scannow ?
    sfc works in xp? I thought it was only 98.. I will try it.. what is the /scannow option?
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  10. December 11th, 2002, 01:49 PM #10
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    start, help and support, type in sfc - hit search....
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