From: Yoz Grahame Date: 12:40 on 05 Aug 2004 Subject: Windows Task Manager "hidden feature" Colleague of mine just turned his monitor my way: "Look! Task Manager's gone funny again!" The window border (along with resizers, corner buttons, title bar) had completely disappeared, as had the menu bar, the "Applications/Processes..." tab bar, the status bar at the bottom... all that was left was a floating grey panel with a processes list and the "End Process" button at the bottom. In order to get rid of the window, he had to kill the process. Turns out (as the MS KB article below casually states) that on the lower left side of the panel, in between the main process/apps list and the status bar, there's an *invisible toggle* which you can double-click to switch this, um, feature on and off. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q314227 Fantastic work, Windows Team! -- Yoz
From: Phil Pennock Date: 17:16 on 05 Aug 2004 Subject: Re: Windows Task Manager "hidden feature" On 2004-08-05 at 12:40 +0100, Yoz Grahame wrote: > Turns out (as the MS KB article below casually states) that on the > lower left side of the panel, in between the main process/apps list > and the status bar, there's an *invisible toggle* which you can > double-click to switch this, um, feature on and off. Just tested on my fiancee's laptop. It appears to be the entire frame in which the tabs sit. You can double-click to the right of the tabs, or on the bars on the left, right or bottom of the main viewing area. So it's "double-click on the outermost frame inside the window decorations to add/remove the decorations", not a small invisible toggle. Still, an 'interesting' feature.
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