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August 27th, 2005 07:00

strange behavior

I have winXP sp2. It's a dell 4700. What's happening lately is that my taskbar at the bottom of the desktop does'nt always show the running progams I choose to have on my taskbar. I have gone into Taskbar properties and done the appropriate checking and adjusting. To no avail. I have 5 progs. I used to have show next to my clock on theTB. Now it's onlt two. Once in awhiile for no reason it will show the ones that are suppossed to be there and then Voila..gone again. Any suggestions. I have had a virus and trojan scan..Nada.
I'm sur ei'm just overlooking something, right??
bob
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    Posted August 27th, 2005 08:00

    Go into the Systems Configuration Utility and select Normal Start- Up, reboot and see if the icons come back.
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    Posted August 28th, 2005 01:00

    Thanx I did what you suggested. Sometimes the icons appear in the task bar and again, sometimes not. Would the fact that i have webshots running there as well make any difference? I have taken it off startups but it seems to appear again.

    Bob

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    Posted August 29th, 2005 08:00

    Your computer will run much better if you stop all unnecessary stuff from running. Run a selective start-up with only items needed for your system to run.  A web-shot? You need this there? Get rid of it. If you need to bookmark a website put it in your favorites list.
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    Posted August 29th, 2005 21:00

    Your right and I will. thanx I have Mcaffee, MS Beta Antispyware, Dell support, Win Patrol & Roboform running at startup,+ whatever other hidden processes there are. Too much??

    bob

    Message Edited by bobalu4u on 08-29-2005 05:34 PM