Silly bug

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Bully

Here goes:
1) drag the task bar to the left-hand side of the screen
(ie. to run vertically, not horizontally)
2) drag/expand task bar to 2x or 3x normal width (ie.
approx 1.5" wide on a 15" screen). This is so you can
actually read the icon names instead of having them all
squashed & truncated in the task bar.
3) Set to autohide, so it only appears when you drag the
mouse to the far left [that's the set up I like].

So far so good! Now,
4) Click on Start
5) Drag or copy an application icon from anywhere to sit
above "Programs>".
6) Right click on that icon, as if to rename it perhaps.
And hey presto:
the right-click options are all hidden by the task bar pop-
up so you can't see what you are doing. This should not
happen, and doesn't with Windows 2000!
Regards, Michael.

PS my Start menu is customized to a yellow background and
icon fonts are all set to bold, but I don't think this
affects the bug.
 
+ P.S.
sorry, forgot to say - set xp to "Classic" look - so the
desktop is just like Windows 2000.
 
| Here goes:
| 1) drag the task bar to the left-hand side of the screen
| (ie. to run vertically, not horizontally)
| 2) drag/expand task bar to 2x or 3x normal width (ie.
| approx 1.5" wide on a 15" screen). This is so you can
| actually read the icon names instead of having them all
| squashed & truncated in the task bar.
| 3) Set to autohide, so it only appears when you drag the
| mouse to the far left [that's the set up I like].
|
| So far so good! Now,
| 4) Click on Start
| 5) Drag or copy an application icon from anywhere to sit
| above "Programs>".
| 6) Right click on that icon, as if to rename it perhaps.
| And hey presto:
| the right-click options are all hidden by the task bar pop-
| up so you can't see what you are doing. This should not
| happen, and doesn't with Windows 2000!
| Regards, Michael.
|
| PS my Start menu is customized to a yellow background and
| icon fonts are all set to bold, but I don't think this
| affects the bug.
|

Popup dialogs being hidden behind the Task Bar is a known bug.

It happens with the task bar at it's default single height "bottom of the
screen" position too. Frequently (but not always) tool tips and other
dialogs, such as the date popup that appears when you point to the clock,
will appear behind the Task Bar. The status of a resolution is anybodies
guess I reckon.

This is as close to a Bug report page as I could find. Someone else will
likely have something better.

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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