minimize

I am running windows 7 everything is fine except every time I play a game or run something full screen it minimizes. If it is a windowed app like firefox it will deselect itself and I have to reclick it to select it. It is very annoying mainly when I am playing games antypign as i dont realise...

Hi All. Just notices if I minimize a web page all I get is the 3 options, restore up maximize and close, I do not get a description of the web page, if I have 2 or 3 sites minimized I have to open each one to know which is which. Tried all ways to sort this out, Windows 7RC , 7100 Alan

So I've been using alt.binz for a while now and then lately for some reason windows 7 won't bring the program to the front. I minimize it and everything and nothing seems to work. If I hover over the icon I can see the program in the preview thing but that's it. I don't see any way to move a...

Hi, On the other profile windows just don't move you cant close them or minimize, whats wrong ?

Hi All, I just upgraded to windows7 and now when I play left4dead it minimizes the game back to the desktop when I hit escape, escape should bring up the in-game menu. Has anyone else had this, I've read this occurs on other games too but I'm not sure how to fix it. Thanks a lot, Russ

Ok so in Vista I could right click on the outlook icon and choose minimize to system tray; that way it was still running and would send and receive every 30 min. How do I do this in Windows 7?

This works on W7 7600 x64 just fine, except that when I try to minimize the window, ie exit fullscreen mode, the screen turns black and Windows is unresponsive. Task manager, Esc or any other keyboard shortcuts have no effect. If I can't play in a window then it's pretty useless to me. I even...

In XP/Vista, when a program was open and active, you could minimize it by clicking on that program's name on the taskbar. For example, with an instance of Firefox open you could minimize that instance by clicking the same thing again. In 7, this still works, but only if you have one instance...

When Im playing a game in windowed mode or chatting with people using different chat clients why oh why does windows 7 minimize the programs when I click the desktop by mistake? Is there any way to disable this feature? I tried searching on google and using the search function on this forum but...

How do I get media player to minimize into toolbar like Vista? I googled it but haven't found anything.

I'd like to minimize a program to the hidden icon window in the task bar. Is this possible with windows 7? I use to run a program on XP called 4t tray Minimizer and I'm homing I don't have to fall back to that in order to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ok, this has happened to me in two computers with windows 7 RC. When I minimize firefox the messenger window where you have your contacts, goes up. I know this is weird.

I really like dragging to maximize and dragging to tile. To be consistent, dragging to taskbar should minimize...

msn messenger pops up whenever firefox minimize (solved) my msn messenger is pop up whenever firefox is minimized my msn is pin on taskbar, firefox isn't pin on taskbar. using windows 7 rc any suggestion on this problem?

I just installed windows 7 rc, i seem that i cannot close or minimize the page screen. i can only close by right clicking the bottom item to close. can any1 help? do i have to do a repair install Solve the problem by reinstalling, most likely a conflict. :razz:

Cant get rid of the slider Beta was fine, no issues, i've installed the RC and also played a lil bit with the taskbar options.. I cant work out why, when i minimize a program it dissappears, its in the task manager, but gone from the task bar

For some reason or other, after I downloaded a bunch of updates for my 2007 Office, the close/maximize/minimize buttons are pretty much gone from the top right of all of my windows. I can still use the button locations in the same way, but the graphics have been more or less erased. Has this...

At some point during my usage, the effects for minimizing, closing, opening, and maximizing get turned off by Windows. I'll be enjoying the effects until at some point... closing and opening windows become instant (like in Windows XP or older), same with minimize/maximize. I never turn these...

I did a clean install win 7 7057 64bit and now the icons bar IE, Windows Explorer and Windows Media have a new behavior. With older version every time I clicked on Windows Explorer Icon i had a new Windows now only maximize/minimize the window, for a new window i had to right-click and window...

hello. there is something that i want to disable but don't know where to. when you hover on a tab in the taskbar there is a little windows preview. the preview is fine, but when you hover on the thumbnails preview, all windows is minimized and the focus goes to that window. that's what im...