The Old New Thing

July 2012 - Page 3 of 3 - The Old New Thing

How your taskbar auto-hide settings can keep getting overwritten

July 5, 2012 Jul 5, 2012 07/5/12
Raymond Chen
A customer reported that they were observing that some users were finding their taskbar set to auto-hide even though the standard configuration in the company is for the auto-hide feature to be disabled. Going into Taskbar Properties shows Auto-hide the taskbar checked. None of the users had changed their setting to auto-hide manually, so the ...

You already got your answer, why are you re-asking the question?

July 3, 2012 Jul 3, 2012 07/3/12
Raymond Chen
Today's rant is a blend of two earlier rants: People didn't answer your first email for a reason and If you didn't like the answer, asking the same question again is unlikely to help. A customer submitted a list of questions (via their customer liaison) to the Widgets discussion list, and somebody wrote up a reply, which was sent back to ...

Tracking shortcuts and the early history of multiple monitors

July 2, 2012 Jul 2, 2012 07/2/12
Raymond Chen
Commenter Roni put two suggestions in the suggestion box in the same entry, which is a problem for me because I feel like I'm forced to answer both of them or neither. The first question suggestion has to do with how shortcuts can find their targets even if they've been renamed. This is something I had covered nearly a year before the ...