Once installed, it shows a preview of each window Figure , rather than just the icon. You can switch between multiple documents in the same application in a similar fashion, by pressing Ctrl-Tab or Ctrl-F6. Some applications such as Word show documents in separate windows, so they appear individually in the Alt-Tab sequence.
Instead of being able to activate a window by clicking once, I now have to click two or three times to get the window I want Figure Make it stop! To have the Taskbar work the same way all the time, right-click an empty area of the Taskbar and choose Properties.
Not all icons have these. The problem is that removing a Tray icon varies from program to program. However, in some cases the program will reappear the next time you start Windows. To get rid of it permanently, you may have to hunt for the setting that controls whether or not the program starts with Windows.
Look in the Startup folder in your Start menu, and if you find the Tray icon there, remove it. The Customize Notifications dialog will appear. The first section, Current Items, lists the icons that are currently appearing in your Tray; all others are shown in the Past Items section. The options in this list are, unfortunately, not terribly intuitive. Start by selecting an entry in the drop-down list that appears next to the title.
There are three choices:. This is the default for all icons, and simply means that the icon is only shown when the application in question tells Windows to display it. Click the arrow to temporarily expand the Tray to show the hidden items.
The Tray automatically collapses when you move your mouse away, hiding the icons once again. How can I make it look like an ordinary button, like in earlier versions of Windows? How do I get it back on the bottom? How come? Luckily, you can use the Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! Among other things, the Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! To find out if an application has opened off-screen, click its Taskbar icon so that it appears pushed in, and then press Alt-Space.
If a little menu appears, use the cursor keys to select Move, and then press Enter. With any luck, the missing window should magically appear. Still no luck? Contact the manufacturer of the misbehaving application for help. Underneath the purring Windows interface is a wellhidden facility called DDE short for Dynamic Data Exchange that allows applications to communicate with one another.
DDE frequently comes into play when you double-click documents in Windows Explorer, in an open folder window, or on the desktop. If the application associated with a document is not running, Explorer launches the application and the document simultaneously. But if the application is already running, Explorer merely sends a DDE message to the application, instructing it to open the document on its own. This should ensure that only one copy instance of a program is open at any given time.
Unfortunately, DDE ends up causing the exact problem it was designed to prevent. The solution? Disable DDE. Is Windows really that stupid?
Luckily, the fix is simple enough, but you must first determine the type of file that causes the problem. Find the appropriate filename extension in the list, and click the Advanced button. If you see a Restore button here, click it to reveal the elusive Advanced button, and then click Advanced. In the subsequent dialog box shown in Figure , highlight the bold item in the list—in this case, Open—and click the Edit button.
The duplicate windows should never return at least until you reinstall the application, and in so doing, reinstall the DDE setting. How can I make it look like the rest of my applications? THE FIX : The style you choose in Display Properties affects not only the title bars of your applications, but also the push buttons, menus, toolbars, drop-down lists, and other screen elements in most, if not all, programs that run in Windows.
Some older applications, though, may not know to take advantage of these new features. To force a single application to update all of its push buttons, menus, and so on, type the following into a plain-text editor such as Notepad:. For example, if you were trying to update an old version of Adobe Photoshop photoshp. The next time you start the application, it should look more up to date. Not all programs can be forced to use styles this way, though, and those that support it may not do so properly.
When prompted, type your username and password twice , and click OK. How does it know? How do I get rid of this? Try joining some discussion groups or something, or if you like, I can add your address to some spam lists! THE FIX : In the old days, people used to type in their usernames and passwords to log onto their computers after, of course, climbing down from the mastodons that delivered them to the office.
You can replace the friendly-but-not-terribly-secure Welcome screen with the old familiar logon box Figure via the User Accounts control panel. Some other Windows features are affected by this setting. From a security standpoint, this is not an improvement! Notice that this is in the Windows NT branch, not the Windows branch used elsewhere in this book.
Is this necessary? If you feel that the likelihood of this happening is small, change this setting by right-clicking an empty area of your desktop, selecting Properties, and choosing the Screen Saver tab.
Skip to main content. Start your free trial. Chapter 1. Windows Interface. Snappy Scrolling. Figure Turn off smooth scrolling to make scrolling windows more responsive.
Sharpen Blurry Text. Anti-aliasing smoothes jaggy screen fonts, but it can make them look blurry. Enlarge the various elements on your screen to compensate for a high-resolution setting.
Drag Windows Intact. Understanding Color Depth. Make Windows Translucent While Dragging. Un-Animate Windows Controls.
Using Themes. Customize the Windows Look and Feel. Simplify the Control Panel. Using Schemes. Some of these sets are labelled as' Large ' , ' Extra Large ' or ' Inverted ' schemes - these are the ones you should try first.
To choose a scheme either click on it or if it is already highlighted press the ' Enter ' key on the keyboard. Note: If this does not work it could be because your computer settings cannot be changed due to local IT policies - contact your local IT support for further help.
Fig 1 Once in 'Classic View' double click on ' Mouse ' or press the ' M ' key repeatedly until ' Mouse ' is highlighted and then press ' Enter '. Now I h ave it on single click and it doesn't open the windows full screen, but still doesn't seem right. I will probably try the reinstall driver. I've never had an optical mouse before this one and thought maybe there's something else to do to clean it. I have it on a good mousepad have all along because it's one with a hump on the side for the wrist to rest on.
I'll let you know This seems to work, if i can remember it I once had it like this on a previous Win 98 computer, by choice It seems to work dragging things too, and that was the major problem with it set on double click and not working right. Because of learning FLASH, some of this involves dragging an object to a different place on the stage, and when I'd do it with it not working right it would highlight it and change it to something else instead of just dragging it.
I am going to keep the instructions for reinstalling the mouse. I'm just wary of doing that if I don't have to can find a way that works because experience. Sometimes, the more you try and fix something, the worse it gets LOL I'm also going to borrow my daughter's optical mouse she got from DELL about a year before I got mine and see how that works.
Something might be worn out in mine or need cleaning. Later I didn't get to try anyone else's mouse yet. This is annoying, now it's set now, seems like everything I run the mouse over or near opens, or opens full screen. I want to try reinstalling the driver, but Not sure if I'm capable of manuvering too much, going online finding this, and posting with just the keyboard and no mouse.
Though I'm pretty sure it can be done. What I mean, if I try the reinstalling the mouse and it somehow doesn't work, will I be left mouseless! It's either that or put up with it the way it is, but at least it still works. Been one of "those days". Joined May 24, Messages 15, Because there are no moving parts unless you count the whole mouse optical mice tend to be very reliable compared to the 'ball' type. I have had an optical for over 4 years and I've never cleaned it.
It works fine on the wooden top of my desk without a mouse mat. I'm not sure using a wet cloth is a good idea, just blowing the bottom to remove any dust should be more than enough. I put in cleaning optical mouse in google and got several websites that said to wipe it the pads on the bottom with a clothe wrung out damp with warm water. Another said to rub the mouse back and forth on a white paper and I did this and saw black coming off slightly I'm hoping it's just the settings or driver or something that will resolve when I reinstall it.
I came on here now to print out the directions for doing this. The mouse does work and I keep changing the settings from single click to double, hoping that will work. It's just messed up enough to be annoying. I do a lot in Photoshop, fixing pictures and today was making a logo for a link for someone. I was cropping a piece out of a picture, and could draw the lines for the crop, but when I tried to adjust them it would crop it before I could.
I have a non USB keyboard not the one that came with it but I have an adaptor plug for that. I have been trying the mouse right on the table top or on a piece of printer paper.
It's not always easy to see what it's doing that's not right I have to come to something I want to do and find out. It's almost like it's overly sensitive in a way, too.
Like everytime I try and move a picture open in a photo program by grabbing the top and dragging it it opens it up full page and I have to click restore to get it back. Don't be afraid to uninstall the driver.
As long as it's plugged in, Windows will almost certainly reinstall a mouse driver when you reboot after uninstalling. I'm with managed on the issue of wetness--the surest way to destroy an optical mouse is to get water into it. I smoke, and I have a longhaired cat, and cleaning my 2 year old optical mouse hasn't become necessary yet I have cats and a woodstove. I take long tweezers and pull fuzz and hair and stuff out of the vent of my pc The mouse didn't work before I washed it, I wet a paper towel, squeezed it out and only rubbed it over the endges where the padding is.
Didn't get it anywhere near where the light it. I never thought about cleaning it till it started acting up bad mouse! When I went in to device manage, I found two enteries for the driver, under the mouse, the same. HID compliant mouse. I thought that might have been a problem. I took one out and have been using it, trying to decide how it's doing.
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