Vista - Taskbar gone wrong? Please help!

hi, i bought a vista premium laptop on the 3rd of august and within the first
week there is already a problem. i heard vista was bad but this is
ridiculous. the taskbar doesnt work at all. if i minimise something, i cant
bring it back up i have to ctrl alt delete it and if i click anywhere on the
taskbar it just dings... please help? on xp there is a way to reset the pc to
an earlier date so i thought that might work with this but i dont know how to
do it... well... does anybody have a solution?

On Aug 8, 9:00 am, Tom <T...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> hi, i bought a vista premium laptop on the 3rd of august and within the first
> week there is already a problem. i heard vista was bad but this is
> ridiculous. the taskbar doesnt work at all. if i minimise something, i cant
> bring it back up i have to ctrl alt delete it and if i click anywhere on the
> taskbar it just dings... please help? on xp there is a way to reset the pc to
> an earlier date so i thought that might work with this but i dont know how to
> do it... well... does anybody have a solution?

I bought my laptop back in April and had the same problem for the
first month where the taskbar was useless, and in my case, had a
strange jumbled appearance where minimized items overlapped but were
un-clickable.

The problem in my case was the Firefox web browser. If I didn't use
it, the problem never happened.

Unfortunately, as you may have seen on another post, I also have
problems with the Internet Explorer version 7 web browser which have
not been resolved. You may want to try Opera or Safari as alternates
if you have the same problem as me where letters are dropped when
typing in a text box on a web page with Internet Explorer.

If you have not downloaded Firefox and have never used it on your
current laptop, then obviously this is not your problem. In that case
try this: disable all graphics goodies by setting to Windows Classic,
or something like that. Then, disable as many startup programs as you
can. Then disable browser add-ons. When you are finished, you may
solve the problem, but your computer will be no fun. Sorry, if I
sound a little bitter about the Vista experience

Actually, It is growing on me now. I hope they fix everything soon.

"drleeds" wrote:

> On Aug 8, 9:00 am, Tom <T...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > hi, i bought a vista premium laptop on the 3rd of august and within the first
> > week there is already a problem. i heard vista was bad but this is
> > ridiculous. the taskbar doesnt work at all. if i minimise something, i cant
> > bring it back up i have to ctrl alt delete it and if i click anywhere on the
> > taskbar it just dings... please help? on xp there is a way to reset the pc to
> > an earlier date so i thought that might work with this but i dont know how to
> > do it... well... does anybody have a solution?
>
> I bought my laptop back in April and had the same problem for the
> first month where the taskbar was useless, and in my case, had a
> strange jumbled appearance where minimized items overlapped but were
> un-clickable.
>
> The problem in my case was the Firefox web browser. If I didn't use
> it, the problem never happened.
>
> Unfortunately, as you may have seen on another post, I also have
> problems with the Internet Explorer version 7 web browser which have
> not been resolved. You may want to try Opera or Safari as alternates
> if you have the same problem as me where letters are dropped when
> typing in a text box on a web page with Internet Explorer.
>
> If you have not downloaded Firefox and have never used it on your
> current laptop, then obviously this is not your problem. In that case
> try this: disable all graphics goodies by setting to Windows Classic,
> or something like that. Then, disable as many startup programs as you
> can. Then disable browser add-ons. When you are finished, you may
> solve the problem, but your computer will be no fun. Sorry, if I
> sound a little bitter about the Vista experience
>
> Actually, It is growing on me now. I hope they fix everything soon.
>
>
Ok i will try that now =) thank you!

"drleeds" wrote:

> On Aug 8, 9:00 am, Tom <T...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > hi, i bought a vista premium laptop on the 3rd of august and within the first
> > week there is already a problem. i heard vista was bad but this is
> > ridiculous. the taskbar doesnt work at all. if i minimise something, i cant
> > bring it back up i have to ctrl alt delete it and if i click anywhere on the
> > taskbar it just dings... please help? on xp there is a way to reset the pc to
> > an earlier date so i thought that might work with this but i dont know how to
> > do it... well... does anybody have a solution?
>
> I bought my laptop back in April and had the same problem for the
> first month where the taskbar was useless, and in my case, had a
> strange jumbled appearance where minimized items overlapped but were
> un-clickable.
>
> The problem in my case was the Firefox web browser. If I didn't use
> it, the problem never happened.
>
> Unfortunately, as you may have seen on another post, I also have
> problems with the Internet Explorer version 7 web browser which have
> not been resolved. You may want to try Opera or Safari as alternates
> if you have the same problem as me where letters are dropped when
> typing in a text box on a web page with Internet Explorer.
>
> If you have not downloaded Firefox and have never used it on your
> current laptop, then obviously this is not your problem. In that case
> try this: disable all graphics goodies by setting to Windows Classic,
> or something like that. Then, disable as many startup programs as you
> can. Then disable browser add-ons. When you are finished, you may
> solve the problem, but your computer will be no fun. Sorry, if I
> sound a little bitter about the Vista experience
>
> Actually, It is growing on me now. I hope they fix everything soon.
>
>
no, it didnt work. thanks for trying to help though

"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote ...
> hi, i bought a vista premium laptop on the 3rd of august and within the
> first
> week there is already a problem. i heard vista was bad but this is
> ridiculous. the taskbar doesnt work at all. if i minimise something, i
> cant
> bring it back up i have to ctrl alt delete it and if i click anywhere on
> the
> taskbar it just dings... please help? on xp there is a way to reset the pc
> to
> an earlier date so i thought that might work with this but i dont know how
> to
> do it... well... does anybody have a solution?

Hi Tom,

I don't have a solution for the specific problem you're seeing. But you
*might* be able to get some more info about the problem, this way:

- go to Start menu, Control Panel;
- click on System and Maintenance
- under Problem Reports and Solutions, click on View Problem History
- investigate any problems that are listed.

It could be something like Explorer hitting a memory access violation. You
can also use the "Check for new solutions" link to see if there is a hotfix
for the problem.

If the laptop is still only a couple of weeks old, it might still be under
warranty, you could return it to the vendor for support. What brand and
model is it?

Hope this helps,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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on xp there is a way to reset the pc to
> an earlier date so i thought that might work with this but i dont know how
> to
> do it... well... does anybody have a solution?

windows key - type restore - click on system restore.

--
John the West Ham fan
house.trained@virgin.net
housetrained@hotmail.com
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