I have seen this only when there is not enough room on the taskbar to
display all the open windows. If the number of open windows is reduced, the
individual items appear again on the taskbar. If you are saying that there
is in fact room for all the items to show, then more research would need to
be done - I have never seen this happen.

Peter Shkabara
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I have just discovered a new quirk on my WinXP (SP-2) taskbar.  In the past,
if you had multiple documents or apps open, you'd see a small button for
each app or document on the taskbar, side by side, where you could easily
click the button to bring that doc or app to the front.  Now, the multiple
icons or buttons have been replaced by a single button, with a small up or
down arrow scroll "wheel" to the right of that.  Unless the active windows
are arranged on the desktop so that you can see each of them, you have to
use the scroll arrows to get to the doc or app you want.  Often, there
aren't enough characters displayed on the current "button" to recognize
which document you're trying to activate.

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