If you pull up "Properties" on the Task Bar itself, one of the options is
"Group similar taskbar buttons".  It's enabled by default, and results in
the "pull up" menus you describe.  Un-check it and XP will revert to your
preferred behaviour.

David Gillett


On 2 Nov 2005 at 21:54, Carol wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is any way to change XP so that, instead of
> putting things in a pull up menu when you minimize them, it just minimizes
> them separately in the tray?  In Win98SE, when I would minimize an email,
> (or photo, or anything else), it would put them in the tray so that you
> could see them seperately without having to click on anything.  If you had
> several minimized, each one would appear smaller, but you could just click
> on the one you wanted and it opened.  Now in XP, I have to click on the down
> arrow to get a menu of the minimized emails, photos or whatever, and click
> on one in a list.  It's an extra step and makes it easier to lose track, so
> I'd like to change it, if I could.
> Carol Hanson

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