Minimized Program Icons Gone on Taskbar

Hi,

this happened now the second time to me. The first time it happened on
my mother's latptop, which is a WinXPHome/SP2. The second time it
happened today on my computer which is a WinXPPro/SP2.

I had some program crash (today it was UT2004) and after logging out and
back in the part of the taskbar, which shows the minimized windows has
disappeared. All else is still there (Quickstart, Virtual Desktops,
Search, Trayicons, etc.) I tried removing any from the taskbar and
adding the stuff back, still no luck. I did not install any new software
these days, but had Adobe update to current AcrobatReader. I am very
well secured.

There is a KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;139727 which
describes the same problem, as it seems, but I do not have any Xerox
software installed. Since this was a startup-folder entry and some "Make
it easier" type of software, I assumed, that it may be, that Adobe uses
the same software for the AcrobatReader Quickstart utility, they placed
into my startup-folder. Hence I removed it. No luck either.

I found no solution on the web. I tried removing the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current
Version\Explorer\StuckRects2 key.

I checked for Friends Greetings Sacm as outlined in a post from 2002
here: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1036987252

I do not want to reinstall Windows. That is not a solution. I have
collected and applied just too many custom tweaks over the years, not to
talk about all the stuff written to the registry over the years.

Any help would be very appreciated. Thank you.

--
Bye,
Andreas M.

Andreas
Sat May 10 16:38:55 PDT 2008

Sorry, I was expecting it to be more difficult, since I could not solve
it the last time so I gave up. However, now I found this:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/clustering/archive/2005/05/02/45390.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

Thank God! Just look how many people have added a comment on this ;-)
Comments like this are so familiare:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/clustering/archive/2005/05/02/45390.aspx#1505240
and http://msmvps.com/blogs/clustering/archive/2005/05/02/45390.aspx#76704

--
Bye,
Andreas M.

bojimbo26one
Sun May 11 00:16:54 PDT 2008

On Sun, 11 May 2008 01:10:26 +0200, "Andreas M."
<foobar@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>this happened now the second time to me. The first time it happened on
>my mother's latptop, which is a WinXPHome/SP2. The second time it
>happened today on my computer which is a WinXPPro/SP2.
>
>I had some program crash (today it was UT2004) and after logging out and
>back in the part of the taskbar, which shows the minimized windows has
>disappeared. All else is still there (Quickstart, Virtual Desktops,
>Search, Trayicons, etc.) I tried removing any from the taskbar and
>adding the stuff back, still no luck. I did not install any new software
>these days, but had Adobe update to current AcrobatReader. I am very
>well secured.
>
>There is a KB article:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;139727 which
>describes the same problem, as it seems, but I do not have any Xerox
>software installed. Since this was a startup-folder entry and some "Make
>it easier" type of software, I assumed, that it may be, that Adobe uses
>the same software for the AcrobatReader Quickstart utility, they placed
>into my startup-folder. Hence I removed it. No luck either.
>
>I found no solution on the web. I tried removing the
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current
>Version\Explorer\StuckRects2 key.
>
>I checked for Friends Greetings Sacm as outlined in a post from 2002
>here: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1036987252
>
>I do not want to reinstall Windows. That is not a solution. I have
>collected and applied just too many custom tweaks over the years, not to
>talk about all the stuff written to the registry over the years.
>
>Any help would be very appreciated. Thank you.

Anything in Event Viewer ?