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Button remains on taskbar from Screensaver
I heard about this problem very often in the last time. I suggest you use Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition or not? Please read this article about the "Icon Is Displayed on the Taskbar After Closing the Screen Saver" problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280722 Thanks, but from the "When you close the screen saver, an icon that is titled "screen saver" is displayed on the taskbar." Kristen doesn't say, but what I get is a button, same size and shape as the button from any running application, but with nothing - icon or text - on it at all, i. e. a blank grey rectangle. (Also, I'm unimpressed with the above article: it basically says, this can happen if you applied a certain hotfix - and gives as a solution, remove the hotfix. [It's a hotfix to fix "Windows Stops Responding During Shutdown with Mapped Drives"; since I don't use Mapped Drives {why in capitals?}, I'm unlikely to have installed it.]) I have same problem here. When screen saver stops plain grey button / box remains in taskbar. Not icon. |
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Button remains on taskbar from Screensaver
Here is my old standard blurb on the issue of "ghost buttons"....whether they are
blank or they contain text: Switching screensavers and/or updating the video drivers sometimes helps. These ghost buttons are often caused by one of these MS updates: The Win98SE Mapped drives Shutdown update The Win98SE 1394 Storage Supplement They may have been installed by the manufacturer, or by Windows Update...if you don't need them, uninstall them. Search for these INF files: 260067un.inf 242975un.inf Right-click the INF files and click Install from the context menu, to remove the updates. You must have Folder OptionsView tab set to "Show All Files", as INF files are "hidden" files. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "The Polish-Kraut" wrote in message ... I heard about this problem very often in the last time. I suggest you use Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition or not? Please read this article about the "Icon Is Displayed on the Taskbar After Closing the Screen Saver" problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280722 Thanks, but from the "When you close the screen saver, an icon that is titled "screen saver" is displayed on the taskbar." Kristen doesn't say, but what I get is a button, same size and shape as the button from any running application, but with nothing - icon or text - on it at all, i. e. a blank grey rectangle. (Also, I'm unimpressed with the above article: it basically says, this can happen if you applied a certain hotfix - and gives as a solution, remove the hotfix. [It's a hotfix to fix "Windows Stops Responding During Shutdown with Mapped Drives"; since I don't use Mapped Drives {why in capitals?}, I'm unlikely to have installed it.]) I have same problem here. When screen saver stops plain grey button / box remains in taskbar. Not icon. |
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Button remains on taskbar from Screensaver
Here is my old standard blurb on the issue of "ghost buttons"....whether they are
blank or they contain text: Switching screensavers and/or updating the video drivers sometimes helps. These ghost buttons are often caused by one of these MS updates: The Win98SE Mapped drives Shutdown update The Win98SE 1394 Storage Supplement They may have been installed by the manufacturer, or by Windows Update...if you don't need them, uninstall them. Search for these INF files: 260067un.inf 242975un.inf Right-click the INF files and click Install from the context menu, to remove the updates. You must have Folder OptionsView tab set to "Show All Files", as INF files are "hidden" files. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "The Polish-Kraut" wrote in message ... I heard about this problem very often in the last time. I suggest you use Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition or not? Please read this article about the "Icon Is Displayed on the Taskbar After Closing the Screen Saver" problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280722 Thanks, but from the "When you close the screen saver, an icon that is titled "screen saver" is displayed on the taskbar." Kristen doesn't say, but what I get is a button, same size and shape as the button from any running application, but with nothing - icon or text - on it at all, i. e. a blank grey rectangle. (Also, I'm unimpressed with the above article: it basically says, this can happen if you applied a certain hotfix - and gives as a solution, remove the hotfix. [It's a hotfix to fix "Windows Stops Responding During Shutdown with Mapped Drives"; since I don't use Mapped Drives {why in capitals?}, I'm unlikely to have installed it.]) I have same problem here. When screen saver stops plain grey button / box remains in taskbar. Not icon. |
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Button remains on taskbar from Screensaver
"glee" wrote in message
... [] I don't use Mapped Drives {why in capitals?}, I'm unlikely to have installed it.]) That hotfix was installed by many OEMs when they built their systems, so you may very well have it on yours. It would certainly be quite simple to find out: search for a file named 260067un.inf.....if it exists, the update is installed. To remove, right-click 260067un.inf and click Install (the article mistakenly states the file name as 260067.inf). Ah - I built mine, so it's not there (-:. [] They may have been installed by the manufacturer, or by Windows Update...if you don't need them, uninstall them. Search for these INF files: (And - sacrilege I expect, from reading this 'group - I've never played with Windows Updates. My desktop PC isn't connected to the internet [or anything else!], and on both it and my laptop I run the '95 shell, by preference, so am loth to try "updates".) [] _I_ found it _did_ depend on the 'saver: basically, old Windows 3.x screensavers were most likely to (I _think_ would always) leave that button there. It always goes away if I click on it. I just accept it as penalty for being able to use some old 'savers I like; if you do get a solution that works, please share (-:! [] |
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Button remains on taskbar from Screensaver
"glee" wrote in message
... [] I don't use Mapped Drives {why in capitals?}, I'm unlikely to have installed it.]) That hotfix was installed by many OEMs when they built their systems, so you may very well have it on yours. It would certainly be quite simple to find out: search for a file named 260067un.inf.....if it exists, the update is installed. To remove, right-click 260067un.inf and click Install (the article mistakenly states the file name as 260067.inf). Ah - I built mine, so it's not there (-:. [] They may have been installed by the manufacturer, or by Windows Update...if you don't need them, uninstall them. Search for these INF files: (And - sacrilege I expect, from reading this 'group - I've never played with Windows Updates. My desktop PC isn't connected to the internet [or anything else!], and on both it and my laptop I run the '95 shell, by preference, so am loth to try "updates".) [] _I_ found it _did_ depend on the 'saver: basically, old Windows 3.x screensavers were most likely to (I _think_ would always) leave that button there. It always goes away if I click on it. I just accept it as penalty for being able to use some old 'savers I like; if you do get a solution that works, please share (-:! [] |
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