Forum: Author Hangout

I always thought the 'aero' feature in Windows was when you get so frustrated, you heave it out the window. 'D

That's the end user definition and yes, I have used that one as well. My neighbor was not impressed.

As for the 'sticking preview' when mousing over the tabs, I ended up having to disable the preview mode.

Zellus,

Thank you that link.

I must not shoot the messenger; If only I could shoot those responsible for requiring me to ask for the message.

This sure filled my heart with glee... (paraphrasing)

** WARNING ** Backup your entire computer before attempting this. Attempts to manually edit the registry may result in complete system and nervous breakdowns. :(

** WARNING ** Backup your entire computer before attempting this. Attempts to manually edit the registry may result in complete system and nervous breakdowns. :(

I think I will just have to live with it until someone comes out with a safe fix for the problem.

I think I will just have to live with it until ...

My thought too, but I may have a viable alternative.

Getting computer repairs done where I live, Indonesia, forget it! But I travel to Malaysia regularly which has a mix of second-world labour costs but competent technicians.

I think I'll look for a reconditioned laptop there and get Linux installed on it. Once I get that going I'll swap over my current laptop ... and bye, bye, no more buy, buy, from M$. Yeah! :)

For browsers I use Torch and Tor.
This is a Windows 10 OS "feature" I want to turn off.
Zellus has given me the how-to. It ain't pretty. :(

Right click on the Taskbar, select Taskbar settings.
Towards the bottom is the Combine taskbar buttons option.
Is it set to Never.

It took me a while to find that. The right scroll bar of Taskbar Settings is so narrow I thought there was none when I looked. It was only after moving my cursor there that it became wide enough to see and use.

Scrolling down the other options I never knew were there, I found the Combine option you mentioned and I changed that the Never.

DEFINITELY, not what I want. My six OpenOffice documents currently opened and accessible via one taskbar icon had become six OO icons in the taskbar. I set it back to what it was before.

THEN ??? my system started working exactly how I've said above I wished it would. I can move my cursor over a taskbar icon, thumbnails for all windows open for that application appear, but they disappear when I simply move the cursor back to the main screen.

I'm grateful zellus made a post confirming what I originally whined about is quite real. Otherwise, I'd be doubting my sanity more than usual right now.

There is one other thing I did which was helping a bit before those aliens dropped by and solved my dilemma. My irritations have been mostly when I was working near the bottom of the screen and my cursor unintentionally dropped over a taskbar icon which was open - it isn't a problem if I pass over an icon which is not currently open. I am more likely to do ordinary work nearer the centre than the LHS. I have reordered my taskbar icons so the four that are always open (OO, Torch, Tor, Ox.D) are on the far left.

I opened this thread and my immediate problem is now resolved. I won't be fussed if the thread now descends into everyone's pet gripes about various technology companies, puns, asides, etc.