hide inactive tray icons button disabled

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Michael,

"Hide inactive icons" is greyed out in Taskbar Properties:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/traynotify.htm

Use System Restore to Undo Changes if Problems Occur:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport...


--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


<newsbirdie2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I shutdown my computer and the next day the button "hide inactive tray
> icons" was disabled. It's been like that for a few days now despite
> rebooting and I can't figure out why. I can't enable it and now I have
> my tray icons taking up a lot of space on the task bar. A search on
> google doesn't turn up any results.
>
> Does anyone know why this button would be disabled? What should I do?
>
> Thanks
> Michael
>

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This fixed my problem. No idea how that got changed but with our
"helpdesk" one never knows. Thank you very much, I book marked the
site for future reference!

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newsbirdie2@hotmail.com wrote:
> This fixed my problem. No idea how that got changed but with our
> "helpdesk" one never knows. Thank you very much, I book marked the
> site for future reference!
>

Hi

I missed the earlier posts regarding this can you pass on the solution
please?

Thanks

Z

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newsbirdie2@hotmail.com wrote:
> This fixed my problem. No idea how that got changed but with our
> "helpdesk" one never knows. Thank you very much, I book marked the
> site for future reference!
>

sorry I should have said but the problem i face is that I dont have hide
icond selected and yet still some icons hide anyway. is this similar to
what you had?

Z

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You're welcome!

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


<newsbirdie2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126247095.008629.144220@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> This fixed my problem. No idea how that got changed but with our
> "helpdesk" one never knows. Thank you very much, I book marked the
> site for future reference!
>