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Browsers in Task Bar Question
I have a dial up internet connection so when I surf the web I usually
have multiple IE browsers running and let some pages load while I am reading others. On Windows 95 and 98, I can have 8 or 10 IE browsers open and switch between them simply by clicking on the browser tab on the task bar at the bottom of the screen. On Windows XP however, once I open more than about 4 or 5 browsers, their tabs disappear from the task bar and are replaced by a single tab. Now to switch between different brower windows I must first click on the tab, which brings up a list of browser windows, and then click a second time on the browser window I want to view. I can't understand why MS would change from the simple one click method from W95 and W98 to something that requires multiple clicks to do. More importantly, is their anyway or setting to fix this? Thanks. |
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:47:02 -0700, WillyG wrote:
I have a dial up internet connection so when I surf the web I usually have multiple IE browsers running and let some pages load while I am reading others. On Windows 95 and 98, I can have 8 or 10 IE browsers open and switch between them simply by clicking on the browser tab on the task bar at the bottom of the screen. On Windows XP however, once I open more than about 4 or 5 browsers, their tabs disappear from the task bar and are replaced by a single tab. Now to switch between different brower windows I must first click on the tab, which brings up a list of browser windows, and then click a second time on the browser window I want to view. I can't understand why MS would change from the simple one click method from W95 and W98 to something that requires multiple clicks to do. More importantly, is their anyway or setting to fix this? Thanks. Right click on the Taskbar and select Properties. This will bring up Taskbar and Start Menu Properties. On the Taskbar tab under the taskbar appearance section remove the check from "Group similar taskbar buttons." Apply your changes. Side note, another way to switch between tasks is to use ALT+TAB on the keyboard. Press and hold the ALT key and then hit the TAB key. This will cycle you through the running windows applications. Release ALT after you have TAB'd to the application window that you want. -- Tom Porterfield MS-MVP Windows http://support.telop.org Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only. |
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"Tom Porterfield" wrote in message
... On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:47:02 -0700, WillyG wrote: I have a dial up internet connection so when I surf the web I usually have multiple IE browsers running and let some pages load while I am reading others. On Windows 95 and 98, I can have 8 or 10 IE browsers open and switch between them simply by clicking on the browser tab on the task bar at the bottom of the screen. On Windows XP however, once I open more than about 4 or 5 browsers, their tabs disappear from the task bar and are replaced by a single tab. Now to switch between different brower windows I must first click on the tab, which brings up a list of browser windows, and then click a second time on the browser window I want to view. I can't understand why MS would change from the simple one click method from W95 and W98 to something that requires multiple clicks to do. More importantly, is their anyway or setting to fix this? Thanks. Right click on the Taskbar and select Properties. This will bring up Taskbar and Start Menu Properties. On the Taskbar tab under the taskbar appearance section remove the check from "Group similar taskbar buttons." Apply your changes. Alternately, rather than having multiple buttons on the taskbar for multiple instances of IE, which crowds the buttons and squeezes them down in size to make their titles useless because you cannot read them, you could have all the buttons grouped together. That way, you click once on the group button in the taskbar and see a roll-up list of all the IE windows and can read their titles to know which one you want to make the active window. The TweakUI powertoy for Windows XP makes it easy to select how you want the buttons grouped (or not at all). Go to Microsoft's web site to download it. |
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WillyG wrote in news:24rud1tiffqbaug7d7toc6057p4gch81h9@
4ax.com: I have a dial up internet connection so when I surf the web I usually have multiple IE browsers running and let some pages load while I am reading others. On Windows 95 and 98, I can have 8 or 10 IE browsers open and switch between them simply by clicking on the browser tab on the task bar at the bottom of the screen. On Windows XP however, once I open more than about 4 or 5 browsers, their tabs disappear from the task bar and are replaced by a single tab. Now to switch between different brower windows I must first click on the tab, which brings up a list of browser windows, and then click a second time on the browser window I want to view. I can't understand why MS would change from the simple one click method from W95 and W98 to something that requires multiple clicks to do. More importantly, is their anyway or setting to fix this? Thanks. Right click on the Taskbar, select properties and uncheck group similar taskbar items. Consider a tabbed browser such as Avant, Maxthon (both use the Internet Explorer rendering engine) or Firefox. I tried them all and personally love Avant and can't imagine surfing without a tabbed browser. |
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:08:10 -0500, "Vanguard"
wrote: Alternately, rather than having multiple buttons on the taskbar for multiple instances of IE, which crowds the buttons and squeezes them down in size to make their titles useless because you cannot read them, No, this is EXACTLY what I want. Even though squeezing them together cuts off most of the title, it leaves the first few letters which is normally enough to know what browser has what and can be activated with a single click. you could have all the buttons grouped together. That way, you click once on the group button in the taskbar and see a roll-up list of all the IE windows and can read their titles to know which one you want to make the active window. And then have to click a second time to go to the wondow you want. The TweakUI powertoy for Windows XP makes it easy to select how you want the buttons grouped (or not at all). Go to Microsoft's web site to download it. Cool , thanks. |
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:27:43 -0400, Tom Porterfield
wrote: Right click on the Taskbar and select Properties. This will bring up Taskbar and Start Menu Properties. On the Taskbar tab under the taskbar appearance section remove the check from "Group similar taskbar buttons." Apply your changes. Side note, another way to switch between tasks is to use ALT+TAB on the keyboard. Press and hold the ALT key and then hit the TAB key. This will cycle you through the running windows applications. Release ALT after you have TAB'd to the application window that you want. Thank you very much. I will do this. |
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