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    Vista Home Basic Questions

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Trailryder, Jan 25, 2009.

  1. Trailryder

    Trailryder Notebook Guru

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    Hey all,
    Just got my first laptop, a Dell Vostro 1510 with Vista Home Basic. It's quite different from XP Pro.

    Hope you all don't mind me asking about some things that have me stumped.

    On the bottom right task bar, (not the system tray) whenever I have more than 2 apps of anything running, everything else gets grouped and you have to click on an up/down kinda deal to scroll thru whats grouped and maximize the program from that. What a pain. Is there a way to prevent it from doing that and allow me to show buttons for all open apps besides just 2 at a time?

    In the taskbar and start menu properties I have the "group similar taskbar buttons" unchecked, but that only seems to work for the Quicklaunch side of the taskbar.

    Thanks for any help.
     
    Trailryder, Jan 25, 2009
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    booboo12 Notebook Prophet

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    Hmm, that's not typical Vista behavior, however, I was able to replicate your issue this way...

    Check to see if your quicklaunch toolbar is stretched all the way to the right. To do this, right click the taskbar and click "unlock the taskbar" Then drag the divider between the back of the QuickLaunch toolbar to the left until it's just behind the last quicklaunch icon. Lock the taskbar again by right clicking the taskbar and choosing "Lock the taskbar".
     
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  3. Trailryder

    Trailryder Notebook Guru

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    That was it! I unlocked the taskbar, the slider showed up and it was all the way to the right. Thanks much.
     
    Trailryder, Jan 25, 2009
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