Okay, I have a computer question now

[Shy Tall Guy]

This is for those people who know how to tweak things in the Windoze UI, and possibly requires some registry work, but I don't know where to start with this one:

I am running Win2K. I have my taskbar over on the right side of the screen because I like it that way - it is set to autohide so it is normally invisible. When I have ten browser windows open, such as when looking at Ty's Hentai pics, when I close each window in turn, the taskbar pops up and is on top of the next window I want to close. The close button of the window is therefore underneath the taskbar and I have to then click somewhere in that window to get it back on top and for the taskbar to hide itself again. This is very irritating and time consuming.

Is there a tweak somewhere to keep the taskbar hidden unless I explicitlty place the cursor over it to bring it out, or is this one of those totally brain dead "features" of the great MS human factors team?

 

[Weird Harold]

Is there a tweak somewhere to keep the taskbar hidden unless I explicitlty place the cursor over it to bring it out, or is this one of those totally brain dead "features" of the great MS human factors team?

This is, unfortunately, a characteristic of the auto-hide function.

The reason it doesn't hide itself again after you close a window, is because it doen'st know which window to make active.

FWIW, the way I deal with multiple open windows that I want to close down is to right click the task on the taskbar entry and select close. Right-clicking not only brings up the context menu, it restores the task to the active window so I can be sure it's the one I want to close.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Sounds like you need LUNIX!!!!1

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Re: Re: Okay, I have a computer question now

The reason it doesn't hide itself again after you close a window, is because it doen'st know which window to make active.

Make the one on top active or just don't make any of them active.

FWIW, the way I deal with multiple open windows that I want to close down is to right click the task on the taskbar entry and select close. Right-clicking not only brings up the context menu, it restores the task to the active window so I can be sure it's the one I want to close.

I want to be able to just click on the underlying close button - but I guess that makes too much sense. right clicking on a taskbar item and then selecting a menu item is slower than clicking on the window.

Oh well - I was hoping there was a hack.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Sounds like you need LUNIX!!!!1

Actually I have Linux - sitting on the bookshelf, but switching to a different OS is not always the best solution to a niggling little human factors design problem that I don't always encounter. Interestingly, the taskbar doesn't always do this - only sometimes. Like right now it isn't doing it.