{"id":35393,"date":"2005-06-08T08:57:36","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T08:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/06\/08\/why-dont-control-panel-programs-and-property-sheets-show-up-in-the-taskbar\/"},"modified":"2005-06-08T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T08:57:36","slug":"why-dont-control-panel-programs-and-property-sheets-show-up-in-the-taskbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050608-36\/?p=35393","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#039;t control panel programs and property sheets show up in the taskbar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Control panel programs and property sheets don&#8217;t show up in the taskbar. Why not?\n As I recall, the explanation was that control panel programs and property sheets aren&#8217;t applications.  They are auxiliary helper windows that assist you with a task, but they aren&#8217;t a program in their own right. Therefore, they don&#8217;t get a taskbar button.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve always been kind of suspicious of that explanation, but there it is, make of it what you will. (I don&#8217;t mind the behavior&mdash;putting them in the taskbar just creates clutter&mdash;but the explanation I found kind of wanting.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Control panel programs and property sheets don&#8217;t show up in the taskbar. Why not? As I recall, the explanation was that control panel programs and property sheets aren&#8217;t applications. They are auxiliary helper windows that assist you with a task, but they aren&#8217;t a program in their own right. Therefore, they don&#8217;t get a taskbar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-35393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Control panel programs and property sheets don&#8217;t show up in the taskbar. Why not? As I recall, the explanation was that control panel programs and property sheets aren&#8217;t applications. They are auxiliary helper windows that assist you with a task, but they aren&#8217;t a program in their own right. Therefore, they don&#8217;t get a taskbar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}