windows 7: minimized ff windows not appearing on taskbar
V S Rawat
I open a ff window, its band appears in the taskbar. I minimize the window, its band disappears from the w7 taskbar. While it remains open and I have to access it through alt-tab. I have been struggling with this for last 2 weeks or so. How to make all the open/minimized ff windows necessarily appear on w7 taskbar?
Thanks
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Rawat
Lou
Ron Hunter
You might try pinning the firefox icon to the taskbar (rather like a
quicklaunch entry). I have no problem getting it to show up when minimized.
David McRitchie
> Lou wrote:
>> V S Rawat wrote:
>>> it is a general problem with windows 7, not just ff specific. It is
>>> happening with all programs that open windows of their own. I am
>>> asking it in relation with ff. :-) hope your suggestion solves my same
>>> problem in w7 with any application.
>>>
>>> I open a ff window, its band appears in the taskbar. I minimize the
>>> window, its band disappears from the w7 taskbar. While it remains open
>>> and I have to access it through alt-tab. I have been struggling with
>>> this for last 2 weeks or so. How to make all the open/minimized ff
>>
>> Ask in a Win7 forum?
>
> You might try pinning the firefox icon to the taskbar (rather like a
> quicklaunch entry). I have no problem getting it to show up when minimized.
If you are referring to the 2-4 icons before the Quick Launch, then
they are actually the visible part of the Quick Launch menu, but those at the
very top show instead on the Windows Task Bar. If you sort
the Quick Launch alphabetically you might give precede titles of the
the first ones with numbers so they appear where wanted.
I kind of thought it might be the gathering of the same application
name windows into one on the task bar, but I wasn't following this
thread. My notes on Vista which should be similar to Windows 7
Vista Basic Home
(look for #taskbar and Group similar taskbar buttons,
which I uncheck, not sure which is wanted here)
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/vista/vista.htm .
Terry R.
I'm guessing by "band" you mean the FF icon (or any program icon). That
doesn't happen here (I'm in Win7 at the moment), nor have I seen it on
any other machine.
Right click on the Taskbar and select Properties. See if you've modified
anything that might be causing the effect.
Terry R.
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Ron Hunter
> On 11/7/2009 1:08 PM On a whim, V S Rawat pounded out on the keyboard
>
>> it is a general problem with windows 7, not just ff specific. It is
>> happening with all programs that open windows of their own. I am
>> asking it in relation with ff. :-) hope your suggestion solves my
>> same problem in w7 with any application.
>>
>> I open a ff window, its band appears in the taskbar. I minimize the
>> window, its band disappears from the w7 taskbar. While it remains
>> open and I have to access it through alt-tab. I have been struggling
>> with this for last 2 weeks or so. How to make all the open/minimized
>> ff windows necessarily appear on w7 taskbar?
>>
>> Thanks -- Rawat
>
> I'm guessing by "band" you mean the FF icon (or any program icon). That
> doesn't happen here (I'm in Win7 at the moment), nor have I seen it on
> any other machine.
>
> Right click on the Taskbar and select Properties. See if you've modified
> anything that might be causing the effect.
>
> Terry R.
I also have Win7 on two machines, and haven't seen this problem. It
seems to me that you have MUCH more than the usual number of problems.
One question, is this a clean install, new machine, or 'upgrade' from Vista?