problem with start menu

pikeh · Post by **pikeh** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:35 pm

its not showing active programs tabs and its really annoying. only way to switch is alt+tab instead of just clicking on them on start bar. Any one know a way of fixing this?

Takitothemacs · Post by **Takitothemacs** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:15 am

lol good work matey... not got a clue how you managed that one... if you find out how it happened let us know...

Mojo · Post by **Mojo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:45 am

do you mean task bar or start menu? active progs appear on the task bar, most recently used progs appear on the start menu (on the xp desktop) but active progs dont appear on the start menu in any confg iirc

pikeh · Post by **pikeh** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:46 am

task bar sorry

Takitothemacs · Post by **Takitothemacs** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:46 am

pretty sure he means task bar matey... but I could be wrong...

Gahn · Post by **Gahn** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:27 am

Didn't u shrinked the bar left way so it doesn't show active progrs?

Ovi · Post by **Ovi** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:31 am

Can possibly fix it by restarting Explorer.

Bring up task manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del, after that depends on OS and version).
Switch to processes, select explorer.exe in the list, press end process.
Ti restart explorer go back to the Applications tab, press new task...
type explorer.exe in the box and hit OK.

Hopefully now things are back to normal.

pikeh · Post by **pikeh** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:26 pm

didnt work :< thanks anyways

Mojo · Post by **Mojo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:28 pm

pikeh wrote:didnt work :< thanks anyways

were you by any chance messing with themes and appearence when they vanished?

pikeh · Post by **pikeh** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:17 pm

yes i think so

but ive tried reverting back to clasic theme and stuff like that